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 be found on Wikipedia.)
List of regions of the United States
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)
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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.
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2025-06-21 · 11 months ago · 👍 Copenhagen_Bram
8 Comments ↓
🚀 Copenhagen_Bram · 2025-06-23 at 03:23:
You didn't put midwest as an option? You would've gotten at least one vote, from me
(If I had a nickel for every Midwesterner on Gemini, I'd have 10 cents. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.)
🚀 clseibold [🛂] · 2025-06-23 at 04:21:
@Copenhagen_Bram I was a bit confused myself at first, but the Midwest here is getting split up between the Plains and the Great Lakes, afaik. These Bureau of Economic Analysis regions are not the same as the tradition 4 regions people usually talk about (East, West, South, and Midwest).
I live in the Midwest, btw, but I live in the plains part, so I put Plains :D
🚀 Copenhagen_Bram · 2025-06-23 at 04:52:
Interesting, the Wikipedia article they linked split it into East North Central and West North Central.
🚀 clseibold [🛂] · 2025-06-23 at 05:12:
@Copenhagen_Bram Yes, but you have to scroll down to the Bureau of Economic Analysis regions heading, and that has different regions used by the BEA. The ones you're talking about are the US Census Bureau regions, not the BEA ones :D
🚀 jsreed5 [OP] · 2025-06-23 at 18:46:
@Copenhagen_Bram I chose the Bureau of Economic Analysis definitions because the term "Midwest" is too broad (which pains me to say, since I live there). Depending on who you ask, it encompasses essentially any region of the US that is not considered to be the East, the South or the West. I saw a fascinating infographic several years ago in which the author created a heat map of the Midwest based on 100 publications' definitions of the term. Amazingly, no part of the country appeared on every single map! http://radicalcartography.net/index.html?midwest
🛸 bluesman · 2025-06-27 at 13:19:
This great plains Geminaut is a bit surprised by the results.
🚀 clseibold [🛂] · 2025-06-27 at 23:18:
@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.
👾 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?