I hate the midwest!! !!

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It's considered Southern Great Plains. That's more physical geography than social description. Not really sure where we fit. Not the South (Deep South type typically fought in Civil War but we weren't a state yet) although Eastern Oklahoma was a big sharecropping cotton producer post Civil War. Not the West, although parts of the state (like the Panhandle) are probably closer to the West than anything else. Kind of a cross-roads state, maybe. When I took OK History at OU this last semester, there was a lot of debate about where we fit in...

There's a funny King of the Hill episode where they go to Wichita Falls.

Northern indiana is more industrialized owibg to chicago and the other midwestern industrial regions and even without that history their culture is similar to michigan [minus .the finnish people]. WellIowa actuaally given Iowa is not heavily industrialized.

Southern indiana is culturally 'southern' leaning. The dividing line could be said to be that interstate expressway that bisects the state evenly through and goes through the capitol Indianapolis and its metro area. Illinois is similar but in this case during the civil war southern illinois wanted to secede like what happened with wet virginia.

Ohio is similar again to north indiana/michigan in culture and it is not bisected like illinois or indiana.



To warn tim_tex: the climate of the northern midwest is similar to that experienced in/around Moscow. (Say cities like Minneapolis).

Btw I've seen a lot of 'weird' people who go to/from wisconsin areas and cities. Tending to be anime fans and renfaire people. Note this is my observation that is all. Also they tend to seem to be from southern wisconsin [milwaukee area and nearby regions that connect to chicago]. Also then again this cityaks youth has a lot of travels from dustbown towns and smaller midwestern cities so note that.



Also if this is not informative enough: my views on 'liberal' and 'conservative' might be skewed even if I get what you all mean so I am limiting that phrasing/exactly discussing it but giving you revelent info for this.

Aka define 'too conservative' v 'too liberal'.

My ancestors were the feudal lords of the county. Some ended up exiled in Massachusets somewhere as they'd pissed off Elizabeth I.

The lass I know from Rolla is decended from someone caught stealing horses in the county of essex next door to herftfordshire. She actually lives somewhere near Tulsa Oaklahoma now I think.

I guess your family would have their own reasons for being pissed off at the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy. My wife has been to England around the time the Iraq war broke out and she says that distrust of the government is common to English people and the media is much more critical and I read an essay by George Orwell that was along similar lines. Here your expected to love the government unconditionally lest you be unpatriotic. I'm not really that psycho about my heritage but if I ever make it to England I'd like to visit those two counties. Maybe the Isle of Wight and Whitby too.

Wow. What alternate America do you live in? I can't say I've ever experienced that. I've met lots of people who think others must be unpatriotic because they don't agree on which relig . . . uh, party approaches things best, but hardly anyone actually likes "the government."

Yea. The only thing Midwest Americans lika about the government is the fact that the goverment kills "brown people who are out to get us". Other than that the government can't do anything right and we'd be better of with multination corperations running everything in this country, including schools, transportation systems, etc...

I live in the Midwest. It stinks.

Our pastor is originally from Iowa, and is now serving our congregation in Spokane Valley, Washington. Well, the Pacific Northwest has the reputation of having the least church going population of any other region of the country. My pastor told my wife and me that he finds this refreshing. In conservative Iowa, people go to church because they feel they feel they have to. Here in Washington, people go to church because they really want to.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I don't find Iowa, especially the larger cities to be overly conservative. We are one of the few states in the country right now to have legalized gay marriage. We have also been on the forefront of many social issues.

I do know that the farther west in the state that you get, the more conservative that it does get. I live in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City area which is in the eastern part of the state, and I have found people overall to be pretty tolerant of people with disabilities.

I may also be due to the fact that I have a tendency to seek out groups and organizations the have a tendency to be inclusive and tolerant.

To be sure, Iowa does have gay marriage - I wish we did here in Washington, too. My pastor hails from a little town with - I believe he said - two hundred people, where everyone is pretty much cousins of everyone else. He once told me how, upon returning home to visit his mother (who has since passed away), she had told him how they had to beat the Godless Democrats in the next election. My pastor, apparently having become more worldly since leaving home, answered by telling her that just because someone doesn't wear their faith on their sleeve doesn't mean they're not Christians. I would imagine a tiny town like this is worlds apart from Ceder Rapids-Iowa City.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Wisconsin here now, after moving back after being in Georgia. I hate it here, but need to be here due to the resources available to get the AS DX and look at some serious sleep-related issues i'm having. i hate it here. that feeling is only going to get worse once winter descends upon us...

Yep, I hate the close-minded attitudes of the Midwest too. I live in Iowa, right on the border with Illinois and Wisconsin. Some day I'll move out to the coast, be it East or West, where there will be a ton of people and I've got to have something in common with at least one of them... hopefully a woman


To clarify, nobody here is intolerant. It's mostly just the feeling of being in a small place, with people who aren't willing to express themselves because of insecurities. Out on the coast, nobody cares how you act, you just do it! Oddities are the norm there...

I personally find the midwest to liberal for my tastes. But it's certainly better then when I lived on the east coast.

He just sounds like a bum. Bums are everywhere. Don't take it personally.

I simply posted an opinion. I didn't say it was the only valid opinion. I said 'for my tastes'. Nobody has to agree.

I hardly see where having an opinion would make one a vagrant lazy person who likes to live off of the support of others.

I was responding to the OP, not you. Relax.