ihoby wog

So I have this pet peeve.. I get annoyed whenever people call places like Chicago and St. Louis “mid-west”. It bugs the hell out of me.

I mean.. look, here’s a map of the U.S.. If we measure out the regions in equal parts we can clearly see that these places are not even close to being mid-west.. they’re in the mid-EASTern United States.

So whenever you refer to one of these states or cities as mid-west, now you can know precisely how very wrong you are.

I know where it comes from through – it’s a obviously remnant of the westward land rush, an east-coast centric way of seeing North America.. back when basically all there WAS in white peoples’ reality, was the east coast.

But that doesn’t excuse the fact that over 200 years have passed since that kind of talk was relevant.