The Picard Maneuver to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world • 2 years ago"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-reportlemmy.worldimagemessage-square278fedilinkarrow-up1996arrow-down129
arrow-up1967arrow-down1image"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-reportlemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world • 2 years agomessage-square278fedilink
minus-squareJJROKCZlinkfedilink16•2 years agoYes the Illinois/Missouri/Iowa group could be nothing other than Midwest, I don’t know how those aren’t 100%. We’re the poster children of Midwest
minus-squarePlasterAnalystlinkfedilink22•2 years agoMissouri is pretty Southern culturally, due to all the racism.
minus-squareJJROKCZlinkfedilink8•2 years agoOh I know, I live here, it’s still IN the Midwest though. STL and KC are at least decent cities, the rest of the state is horrible though
minus-squarePiecemakerslinkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoSt. Louis is actually referred to (by its tourism board, at least) as “The Gateway to The West”. So, if it’s not mid west, I don’t know what they’re thinking.
minus-squaretheodewerelinkfedilink5•edit-22 years agosimilarly, there’s a good chunk of Southern Illinois that is basically indistinguishable from Kentucky… same for Indiana…
minus-square@tasty4skin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•2 years agomy guess is that the 4.7% of missourians saying no are all in the ozarks/boot heel
minus-square@jscummy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink3•2 years agoThere’s a big cultural divide for Illinois, Chicago isn’t very “Midwest” compared to downstate.
Yes the Illinois/Missouri/Iowa group could be nothing other than Midwest, I don’t know how those aren’t 100%. We’re the poster children of Midwest
Missouri is pretty Southern culturally, due to all the racism.
Oh I know, I live here, it’s still IN the Midwest though. STL and KC are at least decent cities, the rest of the state is horrible though
St. Louis is actually referred to (by its tourism board, at least) as “The Gateway to The West”. So, if it’s not mid west, I don’t know what they’re thinking.
similarly, there’s a good chunk of Southern Illinois that is basically indistinguishable from Kentucky… same for Indiana…
my guess is that the 4.7% of missourians saying no are all in the ozarks/boot heel
Nah, they can’t read
There’s a big cultural divide for Illinois, Chicago isn’t very “Midwest” compared to downstate.