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Self-reported data says You Betcha!
Is Iowa the most "Midwest" of all the Midwest states?
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Iowa is pure uncut Midwest, none of that filler culture.
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Weird to see Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming numbers so high.
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Iowa still has the image of hardworking farmers who raise
a family with traditional values. Outsiders look at Iowa as
a rural state with Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Davenport
as the urban oasis. Iowa corn is our famous trademark.
a family with traditional values. Outsiders look at Iowa as
a rural state with Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Davenport
as the urban oasis. Iowa corn is our famous trademark.
Iowa needs to do a much better job of securing its southern border. More and more stupid and inbreds are finding Iowa life to their taste. Iowa is suffering a bad case of the “Mizzery Runs”…..and it ain’t coming from the western river, either.
Iowa is phuqued……and more and more it’s the inbred kind of phuqin’.
People who think Idaho is iowa
I was in Dallas last year and i was in the hotel bar and a guy asked where i was from and i told him iowa. His response was "ahhhhh potatoes!"
People that don’t understand the difference between the plains and the midwest.
Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana should have 100% scores. I’m guessing the people that didn’t vote yes from those states didn’t understand the question. Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota are all no-brainers too, but I could see a small percentage of people thinking they are too far north. I don’t know why Ohio’s score is so low. Probably Ohio State elitists that don’t want to be lumped in with the rest of us.
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We already had Tuesday with Torbee and now we need something else to do the rest of the week.
Tuesdays with who? Sorry, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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I mean much of Eastern Colorado is indistinguishable from Nebraska and Kansas, which while I think they are “plains states” many people do consider Midwestern. I can *almost* see it.
Missouri becomes the south at some point. Not nearly as Midwest as Iowa.
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The best response to the original tweet was “If you don’t have one of the original 10 Big 10 schools inside your borders, you are not a Midwest state.
TROOF!
TROOF!
Most “outsiders” have never heard of Davenport and Cedar Rapids. And more know Waterloo/cedar falls than Davenport.
This. I’d say the Midwest stops at the mountains. So Colorado is partial.
So many people think it’s all mountains.
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To be fair the ppl in Tennessee didn’t even know they were taking a quiz
Anecdotal, but I’ve lived in 5 states all over the country since growing up in Iowa. When talking about seeing in-laws I typically get blank stares when I say Davenport or quad cities. A few seem to recognize moline.
3.3% of Iowans obviously misunderstood the question.
Few things. Far enough west in the plains and you get an arid climate with very different farming practices. Far enough north in the great lake states and it's just forest. Far enough east and you get the rust belt... different climate features (lake effect snow) and culture. Far enough south and you're getting into the mid-south, again with different climate and culture. I probably could have extended east in Wisconsin moreso.
Ohio feels like a transition zone between midwest, rust belt, and appalachia. Michigan is rust belt or Great Lake forest zones.
What I outlined probably halfway closely matches the corn belt.
Ohio feels like a transition zone between midwest, rust belt, and appalachia. Michigan is rust belt or Great Lake forest zones.
What I outlined probably halfway closely matches the corn belt.
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Few things. Far enough west in the plains and you get an arid climate with very different farming practices. Far enough north in the great lake states and it's just forest. Far enough east and you get the rust belt... different climate features (lake effect snow) and culture. Far enough south and you're getting into the mid-south, again with different climate and culture. I probably could have extended east in Wisconsin moreso.
Ohio feels like a transition zone between midwest, rust belt, and appalachia. Michigan is rust belt or Great Lake forest zones.
What I outlined probably halfway closely matches the corn belt.
And there you go.
Disagree. The Plains begin where you can't grow corn consistently without center-pivot irrigation. East of that is the Midwest.
Edit: Or farther north, wheat.
Definitely.
What I struggle with is the culture of the plains vs the culture of the midwest. Appreciable differences? That gets trickier. Plenty of similarities in the small towns. I'd say the differences are more to do with latitude than anything. (small towns generally being nicer the further north you go)
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