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[jonas21]

I also think of Ohio as being in the middle of the country, so I was surprised to find out that Columbus (where us-east-2 is located) is only about 300 miles from Washington DC, but over 2000 miles from San Francisco.

[asdff → jonas21]

Most of Ohio is a 6 hour drive from Chicago and 8 hours from NYC. People call it the mid west, but really it's the mid east.

[all_blue_chucks → asdff]

The "west" comes from the perspective of the 13 original colonies. Everything else was called "the west" at one point.

[abrowne → all_blue_chucks]

Minneapolis was in the "northwest" until the thirties or later.