I live on the border of Missouri and Kansas. While most of Missouri is Midwestern, the southern part is definitely southern. And while Kansas is Midwestern the western part of the state is well western. So what state to you is the most Midwestern?
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For me it’s probably Minnesota, because of MST3K.
I will always upvote MST3K. When Joel first started on the show, they did a small university circuit. I was fortunate enough to get tickets. They did a little Q&A and then did their show live on some old educational videos from the 1960s or '70s. I’ve never laughed so hard in part because it was a rated-R show and many of the jokes were completely inappropriate for TV.
10/10!
The rust belt is a big constituent in my definition of the Midwest, though perhaps in reality only a Venn diagram. As such I’d place Illinois or Michigan as most Midwestern.
Kassel? Arnhem?
To me, a state is midwestern if it had a school in the B1G before Penn State joined.
Among places meeting that criterion, I think Iowa counts as the most midwestern.
While most of Missouri is Midwestern, the southern part is definitely southern.
🤔 What about the southern part makes southern Missouri southern?
Culturally it is Southern and supported the South in the American Civil War. And you start to see some southern cuisine.
Definitely a blurry line, being a border state. The American literary tradition also sometimes lumps Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in with other novels about the antebellum South, though both take place in Missouri.
Kansas ain’t Midwestern.
As someone who was born and raised in Kansas I generally agree, but it gets put on the maps as Midwest. And being raised on the Eastern side of the state we grew up eating a lot of Midwestern dishes.
