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"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report
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this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
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I don't know if it's providence, algorithm, or confirmation bias, but I just ran into a four-day-old Namexplain video on this exact subject.
TLDR: it used to be the westernmost part of the country, called Northwest Territory, but then we got some more land farther west and changed the name, but then we got more land further further west and didn't.