Re:Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 16
by jazzyjackson on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @01:43AM
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As someone from Illinois I'm always surprised Nebraska and Dakotas are considered the same region! But we all share a certain flatness and the central time zone. We're not the mountains, we're not the east coast, we're the middle.
Like my sibling says, it also helps to remember that Peoria, IL used to be the last settled town before you were in the western frontier, St Louis a little later (that's what that arch is all about).
The etymology dictionary has an interesting note on the matter [0]:
" Midwestern (1889) in reference to a group of states originally listed as West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas "
1889 Is the same year Montana and N/S Dakota was created !
Like my sibling says, it also helps to remember that Peoria, IL used to be the last settled town before you were in the western frontier, St Louis a little later (that's what that arch is all about).
The etymology dictionary has an interesting note on the matter [0]:
" Midwestern (1889) in reference to a group of states originally listed as West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas "
1889 Is the same year Montana and N/S Dakota was created !
[0] https://www.etymonline.com/word/Midwest#etymonline_v_14805