Timeline for Since when is Pennsylvania "midwestern"?
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| Dec 5 at 18:32 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | It seems odd to exclude Des Moines from what is considered Midwestern. | |
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| Oct 1 at 19:17 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Arkansas was a Confederate state, so I wouldn't call it midwestern. | |
| Oct 1 at 12:22 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | @user182601 Hm, I did read that backwards. Honestly that makes a bit more sense to me - PA doesn't look too Midwestern on a map but it can sure feel like it when you're there. | |
| Oct 1 at 1:42 | comment | added | user182601 | @NuclearHoagie: non-Midwesterners are indeed more likely to consider PA to be Midwest than people who actually consider themselves Midwesterners Isn't it the opposite? Doesn't the last figure say that 24% of Midwesterners consider PA to be part of the Midwest, while 14% of non-Midwesterners do the same? | |
| Sep 30 at 15:16 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | @vsz Some interesting data here: today.yougov.com/society/articles/…, suggesting that non-Midwesterners are indeed more likely to consider PA to be Midwest than people who actually consider themselves Midwesterners. I also found a 2019 statistic indicating that about 35% of Pittsburghers consider themselves to be living in the Midwest (compared to 9% of Pennsylvanians), suggesting this is indeed a view that's more common in western PA. | |
| Sep 30 at 12:17 | comment | added | David Hammen | "All models are wrong, but some are still useful." That map by Morrison appears to be a bit off. Almost all of Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri are excluded, as are all of the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas. That makes no sense. | |
| Sep 30 at 9:08 | comment | added | vsz | While only 9.4% of Pennsylvanians consider themselves to be living in the Midwest, it might well be that a much larger percentage of people living on the East Coast consider Pennsylvanians to be living in the Midwest. So it might well be that it is used by others to describe them. | |
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