My wife and her sister are from Mississippi and always tell me we’re in the Midwest. Since the Southerners don’t claim us, do you?
My wife and her sister are from Mississippi and always tell me we’re in the Midwest. Since the Southerners don’t claim us, do you?
Interesting question! I was going to say no, but then I looked at the map of Colin Woodward’s American Nations. The definiton of mid-west is relative to the early expansion of the country from the East Coast. Here in the northern part, we consider the Midwest to consist of the westward portions of Yankeedom and the Midlands.
But from a southern perspective, it was the Greater Appalachia nation that expanded into the middle portions of the continent. In that sense, Oklahoma might be seen as the Deep South’s own Midwest.