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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who are the 8.4% of my fellow Hoosiers who don't think they live in the midwest and where do they think they live?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If I owned Hell and Indiana, I would rent out Indiana and live in Hell.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where exactly is Chicago located? In terms of the country as a whole?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you were to slice the country vertically in half through texas it would be in the eastern half, it’s on the southern shore of Lake Michigan. Slicing it horizontally it looks like it would be cut in half, it’s almost in the middle. I just eyeballed this, btw I’m not a slice technician

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The tip of the great droopy penis lake.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In the elementary school Indiana history class (4th grade) it was even a part of the curriculum* to learn where were are in the US.

We were taught that the Northwest Territory became what is now called the Midwest (the area east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio rivers).

  • curriculum as of the late 80s / early 90s