Timeline for Since when is Pennsylvania "midwestern"?
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| Dec 5 at 2:38 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 5 at 2:23 | comment | added | user182601 | I’m voting to close this question because this is not a good-faith question but is instead simply a rant. OP had no intention of ever accepting any answer | |
| Oct 1 at 18:03 | comment | added | user121330 | Perhaps we should tell the people of the American south that they are north of 3 entire continents and most of Africa? Everything is perspective. | |
| Sep 30 at 19:23 | answer | added | JonathanReez | timeline score: -2 | |
| Sep 30 at 18:27 | answer | added | codeMonkey | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 30 at 16:57 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | @njuffa "Midwest" is almost as much of a sociological term as it is a geographical one. Even an encyclopedic knowledge of geography would not tell you where the Midwest starts or ends. I am highly doubtful that commentators who call PA Midwestern do so because they don't know where the state is located (i.e. "lack of geographical knowledge"). | |
| Sep 30 at 14:15 | comment | added | Wastrel | @JohnGordon From my point of view, Illinois is an "eastern" state, since I've spent most of my life in California and Texas. Sorry that my POV slipped into my comment. Cheers. | |
| Sep 30 at 12:13 | history | protected | Philipp♦ | ||
| Sep 30 at 7:30 | comment | added | vsz | It seems that just like how people on the political far left view anyone not as far left as themselves as "nazis" (or the radical right sees people not as radical as themselves as "communists"), people living on the East coast view those further inland as "midwestern". | |
| Sep 30 at 3:34 | answer | added | user182601 | timeline score: 21 | |
| Sep 30 at 2:42 | comment | added | John Gordon | @Wastrel some eastern states such as Ohio, Illinois, Indiana Whaaa? Lifelong Illinois resident here, and I have never once considered it to be an "eastern" state. | |
| Sep 30 at 0:34 | comment | added | SlowMagic | This goes way back. More than twenty years ago, Harrisburg mayor Steve Reed proposed to build a Wild West museum in the Harrisburg area. Apparently, it made sense to him, and others. | |
| Sep 29 at 23:09 | comment | added | phoog | @njuffa but you're quoting a study saying that 9 percent of Pennsylvanians consider themselves to be living in the Midwest. People tend to have have poor geographical knowledge about places where they don't live. Have you spent much time in western Pennsylvania? It is Midwestern in every way. I would be surprised if anyone there thinks of themselves as living in the east. Cultural areas don't tend to respect artificially drawn borders. | |
| Sep 29 at 23:01 | answer | added | Todd Wilcox | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 29 at 21:59 | answer | added | Ted Wrigley | timeline score: 11 | |
| Sep 29 at 21:28 | comment | added | phoog | @njuffa which is probably roughly the proportion of its population that lives within 50 miles (80 km) of its western border. | |
| Sep 29 at 16:20 | comment | added | Wastrel | Yes, it's odd that some eastern states such as Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and sometimes Pennsylvania are called "The Midwest" but that usage goes back to the beginning of the 19th century. Currently, would we consider Nevada, Colorado, and Idaho to be the "Midwest" because they are in the middle of the western states? Historically, that's not what "Midwest" means. | |
| Sep 29 at 16:17 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | It is in the sense that politically it acts more like Michigan or Wisconsin than New Jersey or New York. (As a native Philadelphian I also object to this usage, but I can see how it's a useful political shorthand.) | |
| Sep 29 at 14:45 | comment | added | Bobson | Welcome to Pennsyltucky. | |
| Sep 29 at 14:32 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 29 at 9:34 | comment | added | James K | Who cares? What difference does it make in the context in which the commentators are speaking? If I say that the claim that "Derbyshire is Northern" ignores the fact that it was historically within the kingdom of Mercia... who cares? | |
| Sep 29 at 7:36 | answer | added | David Hammen | timeline score: 29 | |
| Sep 29 at 6:32 | history | asked | Michael Hardy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |