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[โ€“] Rato@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Midwest comes from when the East Coast was the only heavily populated part of the US, and the rest of it was just called "The West."

[โ€“] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

I understand where it came from. It has been incorrect for over a hundred years. It was actually called the North Central Region up until 1984, so we've literally regressed from the 80s. https://web.archive.org/web/20240926043523/https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/regions_and_divisions.html