Comment by 🚀 clseibold
Re: " List of regions of the United States American Geminauts:…"
@jsreed5 Idk, that infographic looks pretty solidly what I expected to me. Collecting every publication and then saying - well they all say a different thing, therefore there is no good definition - doesn't sound like good methodology to me. Publications can be wrong. The infographic shouldn't be weighing every opinion the same.
Meanwhile, the vast majority of what people mean when they say Midwest are included in the vast majority of the publications according to the infographic: Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesotta, Nebraska, and Ohio.
And I think most people *from* the midwest define it as such as well.
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2025-06-27 · 10 months ago
Poll Results
1. New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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2. Mideast (DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, DC)
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3. Great Lakes (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)
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4. Plains (IA, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD)
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5. Southeast (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
█████▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 22%
6. Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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7. Rocky Mountain (CO, ID, MT, UT, WY)
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8. Far West (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)
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9. Other
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27 votes were cast.
1 Later Comment
👾 jecxjo · 2025-07-15 at 02:57:
I'm originally from Wisconsin, have lived, dated, or married into the other midwest states and now reside in Minnesota. So I thought, uffda apparently I'm no longer in the Midwest when I'm about as Midwest as they come.
Now who wants an Old Fashioned?
Original Post
— List of regions of the United States
American Geminauts: what region of the United States do you live in? It would be fun to meet some people in real life who share this hobby, but I don't know if there are very many of us here in the Midwest. (I realize the term "region of the US" is somewhat loosely defined, so to make the poll unambiguous, I'm using regions as defined by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which can...