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"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Most of y'all are east of the centerline.

You're the middle east, not midwest.

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  • [+] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As a Canadian, thank you for explaining. From the chart, I thought Americans in the middle states were just really bad with geography.

    (also you mean geographically, not geologically)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Happy to learn that you're unaware of all the new states.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It’s the name of the region. The Great Plains aren’t particularly great either, they’re just big. It’s like how the Mediterranean isn’t really in the middle of the world

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Great" in that sense doesn't mean "good," it means big. You see the same use in a lot of bird names as in the great blue heron or the great auk, just off the top of my head.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Are you telling me that great tits don’t have lovely mammaries?

    Yeah I’m sorry I know they’re the particularly large plains. They’re just also several shit states and couldn’t resist the pun to mock them

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you're west of the Mississippi river, you're the West. Straight up.

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