Minnesotans thought they made up the true Midwest Hoosiers thought they did. One potential, albeit anecdotal, source of this? Several self-proclaimed Midwestern sources I spoke with have a very limited definition of the Midwest: namely, their state and any state bordering it. But even Illinois - home of the preeminent Midwestern city, Chicago - was identified as Midwestern by just about 80 percent of respondents.Ĭontrast this with our soon-to-be-released Southern survey, in which people were somewhat adamant about which states make the group. Everybody selected at least one state for the question.
First, many people aren’t too sure about where the core of the Midwest is. There are a lot of things here worth looking into. We then asked this group to identify the states they consider part of the Midwest. Of those, 1,357 respondents identified “a lot” or “some” as a Midwesterner. We ran a national survey that targeted the Midwest from March 12 to March 17, with 2,778 respondents. To get this broad-based view, we asked SurveyMonkey Audience to ask self-identified Midwesterners which states make the cut. So I decided to find out which states Midwesterners consider to be in their territory. My boss, originally of Michigan, has many opinions about what, precisely, falls into the Midwest. This admittedly unsophisticated designation is frequently criticized by self-avowed Midwesterners. I’m from New York, and I generally consider anything west of Philadelphia the Midwest. Here’s a somewhat regular argument I get in: Which states make up which regions of the United States? Some of these regions - the West Coast, Mountain States, Southwest and Northeast are pretty clearly defined - but two other regions, the South and the Midwest, are more nebulous.
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