The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 9 months agoMap of the Midwest and its territorieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1172
arrow-up1172imageMap of the Midwest and its territorieslemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Cartography Anarchy@lemm.eeEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareEch@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States#Etymology The crux of it is that the name developed along with the expansion of the US, ie from the east coast. From that reference point, everything else was “The West”, just with varying degrees of distance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States#Etymology
The crux of it is that the name developed along with the expansion of the US, ie from the east coast. From that reference point, everything else was “The West”, just with varying degrees of distance.