America and Americans / Europeans

[Dennis R. Preston]

It's good at least to have a ranking (albeit in body parts) for the
Midwest, even if we don't know where it is. It's not all so relative
after all (at least not on the affective side).

dInIs



>At 1:56 PM -0500 2/22/02, David Bergdahl wrote:
>>I have a friend who insists the Midwest begins at Troy, NY (east shore of
>>the Hudson at Albany)
>>
>My mother was from Troy, NY, and the last thing she ever would have
>considered herself to be was a Midwesterner.  She freely acknowledged
>that Troy was the armpit (or, depending on the audience, the asshole)
>of the world, but the Midwest--never.
>
>larry