Eps 1: One Word: Midwest
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Midwest's 'Mystery Virus' Is Scary but Not Deadly | Kent Sepkowitz | September 8, 2014 | DAILY BEAST
The Midwest is the only region where Clinton lacks a definite lead.
On the same day mention was made of a storm in the Midwest .
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I was reminded of how different those words can be, because I recently had a conversation with a friend who lives in California. During this chat, my friend decided on a top 10 of the words with the most varied definitions according to their location in the United States. The definitions of these simple words vary widely, but they are all spelled the same in California and the Midwest.
While we're talking about the Midwest, many people consider this part of the country empty and boring. This area simply occupies the space between New York and California, but it is also home to the largest population in the United States.
Anyone who has been to the Midwest knows that it is one of the most populous regions in the United States with a population of more than 1.5 million people.
Cornhole in the Midwest is probably the best grass game ever, but when the term "cornhole" is used anywhere other than the Midwest, it usually includes the word "shut up." In the Midwest, however, there is a word that has to do with everything from grain holes to baseball to football, basketball, football, golf, hockey and other sports.
The word "pop" usually refers to a noise that can annoy or frighten someone if they do not expect it to bother them. It is likely that the original etymology of "ops" has long been lost, just like any other expression, but there is a way that people in the Midwest use them that we do not recognize, and that is because it is so common in the Midwest.
It is not unreasonable to cut a syllable word down to its more casual counterpart just to save the trouble of dictating the letter "s," after all it has been cut to "more casual" for the same effect.
Workers can see for themselves that the emissions rules set by California and dozens of other coastal states, the emission rules, tend to produce vehicles that the market does not want, leading to a drop in sales and lost shifts. In the northeastern Ohio city, GM's Chevrolet Cruze Compact plant, which is scheduled to close later this year, has been abandoned by American buyers who deserted it during the Obama years because of its ability to help meet rising fuel-economy standards. I have seen most truck and SUV plants run three shifts before the assembly line disappears.
While President Trump talks of frustration and disruption caused by plant closures, he is turning blue and I loathe him for it. I received complaints from western Pennsylvania and the state of New York arguing that there was no reason for them to want to participate in the conversation. He dissected the Midwest, arguing that states that touch the Atlantic, such as California and New Jersey, could not be the Midwest. It's not perfect, but it's better than the Midwest a decade or even a few years ago.
My bet is that if you don't feel like you're in the Midwest, you don't care what's left of it, and you didn't care what was left.
There is a reason for this, and it goes back more than a few hundred years, but it is not just a matter of a few thousand years or even of the last century.
A recent example is Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow's book "Remaking the Heartland. The Kansas-born president called his territory the Midwest, but acted as if he had virtually nothing to say about it east of Missouri. The Plains States, and Kansas in particular, are focused on a revival region exemplified by the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, which is basically an overgrown office park in all its soullessness where it could be anywhere.
The Midwest Governors Association is reportedly in the process of launching a project to rename the Midwest, presumably to give it a sharper image.
So let's take the eastern fringes of Nebraska and Kansas and include them, and find that the southern half is ozark rather than southern. More drastically, a third of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are dependent and move the region south.
In the cafeteria I wanted to learn about the unique challenges, barriers and advantages of each state. I worked at the Center for Rural Affairs, and we had the opportunity to have a discussion about the role of rural America in the U.S. economy and the state of the country's economy. We toyed with the idea of dealing with the economic, political, and social dynamics of our state, and the relationship between rural and urban America.
Ope is the highlight of the speech in the Midwest, and this new award makes us look at the Midwest. Berens is contributing to this ongoing discussion by paying some attention to an often neglected part of the United States.