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

[Michael Bailey]

Ah - thanks for that!

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 5:59 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Midwest, as defined by the federal government, comprises the states of
>  *Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri,
> Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin*.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
>
> https://www.britannica.com/place/Midwest
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 5:39 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
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