America and Americans / Europeans

[sagehen]

> Carmen Fought (Pitzer College) has reported to me recently that she has had
>no success in convincing some of her undergraduates that there is no
>"real" answer to the question "Where is the Midwest?"
>
>dInIs
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I am reassured by this.  I've always had the sneaky feeling that I was the
only one who didn't really know what the boundaries of "Midwest" were.  I
brought up the question on a western literature list a couple of years ago,
but hardly anyone seemed interested in taking a stab at it.
A. Murie