I propose a renaming

@rebelann I think there are some predictions that CA will sink or at least be underwater at some point!

I've heard that said so many times over the last 4 decades @much2say so far the only threat that seems to be happening as far as water goes is the melting of the polar ice caps

Are you sure about that Just sayin, you know there's gotta be some jokers out there that think CA sunk cuz of an earthquake, right?

I just thought that some of these so called midwest states were a lot closer to northeastern states, I mean Michigan in the midwest??? It looks like it should be northeastern instead.

@rebelann maybe you have to take this up with your official there/

What official do you mean @amadeo ?

Is MI part of New England?

That is odd @BelleStarr why not Massachusetts?

@rebelann Nope, Just Rhode Island, CT, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.

The Great Lakes region is more northeastern than midwestern, that's what bugs me the most about the term MidWestern.

That makes more sense @just4him I know I'm in the southwest but then I am in the farthest western city in TX. Some maps show a brown and green coloration for the two, eastern states and vicinities are always green and lush but when you get into the western half it's usually brown and dry, people around here grow trees on their own property but they have to water these trees just about every day to keep them alive, without the humidity that the eastern states gets trees easily wither and die.

@rebelann To me east is anything east of Ohio. West is anything west of the Mississippi River. So saying the states where I live are either, doesn't work for me. Central works better for me as when I look at the map, it looks like I'm in the north central part of the US.

I suppose most people would know where I live if I tell them I'm from the southwest, right?

I don't get that twag part @Hannihar To me the people raised in Chicago have a funny way of talking but is that how all midwesterners talk?

@rebelann I do not know. All I know is that the midwest has been called that for a very long time. As far as I know people know that part. I always would say I had a midwestern twang.

It must have originated before Montana and Wyoming became a part of the Union.

Yes but you'd think they would update terminology given that the last state to be added was Hawaii @FayeHazel Alaska was added in 1959 also. I just don't get why they don't make a distinction between what really is midwestern and whats actually north eastern. Hmmmmm, lets blame the media they usually muff things up so badly that no one really knows what the truth is, right?

@rebelann Ooooo then it makes sense

@rebelann Now some folks in South Carolina would say that North Carolina is one of them there D-A-M-N Yankee states!

That makes perrrfect sense @Shellyann36 afterall, it was South Carolina that wanted outta the union, right?

And everyone knows where the southeast is. I just wonder where to draw the line. Is there a central south? I know I'm in the south west but then when I look at the map I get the feeling that out of all of TX El Paso is just about the only part that's Southwestern. Ok, maybe Van Horn is as well.

@rebelann I was kidding...sigh...sorry if I hurt ya...actually I think he is doing pretty well for your country.

I didn't get my feelins hurt so no need to feel bad @vandana7 I give as good as I get

Of course I'm right Hey, Trump or Obama or Clinton didn't run the country all by themselves, their ideas got vetoed right and left from congress and the house of reps.

@rebelann It boggles the mind! I just looked some maps up and they all say different things. Some didn't show Texas as Southwest (and CA wasn't part of it too).

Yeah, I couldn't believe it either @much2say I've always figured the south was below the middle of the country and the west was on the other side of East TX border, goes to show ya what I know

Neither did I but I kept reading about so and so is from the midwest or midwest accent or some other reference to midwest and when I saw someone mention Ohio I thought it odd because Ohio isn't near the mid or west. Like you, I never saw a map that showed the midwest before and boy was I stunned. Oddly enough, I consider myself to be in the southwest but I have yet to see a map with the southwest shown on it. I'm still looking for that one though.

@rebelann

So it looks like the mid west to you?

Mid Northern makes sense as does southwest or southeast ..... it would be so much easier if we could simply say Up Yonder or Down Yonder or Out East or Out West, it'd eliminate the need for middles.

How funny, as a kid I was better in math and history than anything else now I'm finally interested in geography

@rebelann I love geography!

I'm getting there but I still like ancient history and math better @DianneN