Do you consider Ohio a midwestern state?

Mid Atlantic.

Prior to the Revolution they WERE the west, along with Alabama and Mississippi. The nation moved west and west moved further. The "Midwest" is a fiction. In a lot of respects everything between West Virginia and Nevada could be counted as Mid-west. I consider Ohio the NORTH (damned Yankees)LOL. Where does the Mid-west finally give way to the west? I have heard Kansas and Nebraska called Mid-west, but many of my friends from there and from Oklahoma, and even Arkansas consider them selves as being from the WEST. I figgure the press always get it wrong. . .I once heard a national anchor refer to Charleston North Carolina, for Pete's sake. If you live somewhere, you are entitled to call yourself anything you want. If you are in the press, just refer to the state and leave the "region" out of the statement.

Yes and No. Ohio is about as Midwestern as you can get culturally, just like Illinois and Indiana. If you put in too many categories, it will just confuse people. I live in New Jersey, which is a Mid-Altantic state. What's that? Or maybe it's just in the Northeast. Or maybe it's a well disguised portal to another planet.

They are called mid-western states because the original western board of the United States after the American Revoluation was the Mississippi River. As the nation grew with the Lousiana Purchase they became the "middle of the west" and "midway to the west." See the wikipedia article for more of a discussion on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-west So I don't agree with you that it is not a mid-western state - it most certainly is by the historic definition.

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As an Ohioan, born and bred, I can say that when I tell people where in the U.S. I live....I say *Midwest*.......now you're right about the three states being East of the Mississippi River....but Ohio is about as *Midwest* as one can get.

I have a very good friend that lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and she and I were discussing this just the other day....she said she is Midwest, moreso than me.....but the very first comment she made when she came here was *omg, Ohio is soooo Midwest*....

To me, Eastern U.S. is New York, New England, Maine, Vermont, etc......Ohio is Midwest :)

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I agree with you. I'm from Michigan and people call that a Midwestern state too. I call it up north.

I do. When I hear that Ohio and PA had storms and they called them the mid west . I always thought of as north east. Of course it is from me.

I consider it the midwest becasue it's part of the Big Ten as far as university football goes

I live in Ohio and i hate that we are considered Midwestern. If anything we're northeastern.

Yes Yes Yes It is a prairie state