Why is the area known as the Midwest called that?
There is a map of the US.I think they're more towards the east of the US.I know about the question.
People will say "out west" and "back east" even if they're from the West Coast.I think it has the same historical implications.
The term "Old Northwest" starts in Western PA into Ohio and the Great Lakes.Everything was beyond the settled portion of the nation after Independence.
When the US only extended to the blue area in the early 1800s, the Midwest was considered the most Western part of the country.The people called it the "Middle West" or "Midwest" because they knew it wasn't the western part of the country."Middle East/Mid-East" is already assigned to another part of the world.
Let's throw this in.I think part of the variability is because states that used to be at the western border are now more in the middle.
The Americas began on the east coast.They progressed west as time went on.
I think it's the same for the middle east, starting from Europe but being far from the far east like china.
The Midwest was not as western as it could be as most Americans moved to the west.The middle west.
California and Oregon were the far west during manifest destiny.The mountain states the west while the st Louis area became middle west.
You start running into the mountain ranges if you don't keep in mind how inhospitable Nebraska is.
When it was owned by the Spanish, it used to be the West.The frontier that it used to be was no longer there as the country expanded.
Before we settled what we now call the western states, it used to be just "the west".The middle west became known as the "middle west" after the Civil War to distinguish it from the far west.
In the very early days of the US, the West was considered the'mid-west', so everything along that line was.