BEg2 It’s a state of mind, rilly, isn’t it?

[Michael Bailey]

Rich wrote:

reminds me of Delillo's take on same in Players. deep midwest is an
interesting term--lots of choices though I found people from the Midwest
disagree on which states qualify, a friend in Kansas for example
doesnt consider Ohio a midwestern state


- Horst refers to the badlands; that’d be in the Dakotas for sure, so for
him that’s in the Midwest. Where Horst’s folks live - Iowa - is already
pretty far north, isn’t it? I mean it’s got all of Missouri under it

When I lived in Kansas they called Michigan, Wisconsin, & the Dakotas
“North Central” which I haven’t heard anywhere else.
When I lived in Michigan we thought we were in the Midwest.
In Florida people rarely talk about that part of the country, around me,
anyway.