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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Michigan is soundly Midwestern lol you definitely cannot call Ohio and Michigan part of the East Coast, and both of those are East of Chicago. Chicago is in the heart of the Midwest.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not East Coast but certainly Rust Belt or Great Lakes region. Nothing in Eastern Time is in the Midwest. It's the East. That's why they called it "Eastern Time".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would the name of the time zone matter? Also the upper peninsula of Michigan extends west of Chicago, can half the state be Midwestern?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Sure, but just the UP, everyone knows it should have been Wisconsin from the beginning anyway. /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By that logic, 87% of Indiana is not in the Midwest.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I'll go further and assert that none of Indiana is in the Midwest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We’ll have to disagree here. Part of Michigan is in CST, and living here my entire life everyone knows we’re Midwestern. Weird way for a Chicagoan to try to distance themselves from us when we’re next door neighbors.