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Originally Posted by HemiEd
55 minute flights to Vegas sound appealing, is that U.S. Air?
My flights will end soon friend, but they are getting the most they can out of me before I say I am done. 
Since I moved here I have tried unsuccessfully to convince these millions of people that Chicago is not in the Mid West.
A flight to NY is an hour and a half. A flight to the west coast is 4+, so I tell them they are in the mid-East and they don't like it. |
I've been trying to convince my Chicago friends this exact same thing and they won't believe me. Not only are they geographically inarguably part of the Mid-East, there is no way you can call a Chicagoan a midwesterner from a cultural perspective.
There are other parts of Illinois that you might be able to convince me have a midwest culture, but not Chicago. I think the phrase Mid-East should be more popularized. What are we supposed to call people from rural Ohio and Indiana for instance?