The Plaice to Know
One-off· United States

Midwest

Midwestern United States
Image via Wikimedia Commons

About Midwest

The Midwestern United States is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the U.S. Census Bureau until 1984. It is between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to the north and the Southern United States to the south.

On the show4 mentions total

He said, if we build three east-west great walls in the American Midwest — one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma to the east, and the third one in South Texas and Louisiana — we will diminish the tornado threats in tornado alley forever.

from No Such Thing As A Communist Caterpillar, 2017-08-04 at 00:08:50 · read transcript

Other times Midwest came up

  1. Of inner tube spares and so what they did was they just got blankets and stuffed it into the wheels so they would keep going so and that was kind of how it was in those days once you got to the Midwest it was let you say no roads it was pretty hard to get anywhere yeah I like that it does sound like the mother like she was there just to slow them down um and keep you know on top of speed.

    398: No Such Thing As An Upside-Down Upside-Down Bat, 2021-11-05 · listen

  2. At one stage, they had a puncture, and they ran out of inner tube spares. So what they did was they just got blankets and stuffed it into the wheels so they would keep going. And that was kind of how it was in those days. Once you got to the Midwest, it was, like you say, no roads. It was pretty hard to get anywhere. I like that.

    No Such Thing As An Upside-Down Upside-Down Bat, 2021-11-05 · listen

View on Google Maps →Open in Wikipedia →

Coordinates: 41.0000, -90.0000

Thoughts on this place?

🐟 Reel me another one · ← Back to the map