What states conform the U.S. Midwest region and why it called Midwest if it's not in the west?

Question

What states conform the U.S. Midwest region and why it called Midwest if it's not in the west?

Answer 1

It's called the "midwest" because it's halfway between the west and the east. This is just a guess, but my feeling is that the early colonization of American took place in the Eastern part of the country. Anything else to the west of the East was considered "West." So they then divided the western frontier into "midwest" and "west" for classification purposes.

States that make up the midwest are Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, North & South Dakota, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nebraska.

Answer 2

Candle Tree is WRONG!  Idaho is not in the Midwest.  She is the one who needs to look at a map.  She even cited her source . . . and Idaho is NOT included!

Answer 3

Under most definitions, the Midwest is comprised of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

It is called the Midwest because it formerly was the West, or Northwest. As the population and U.S. expanded westward, it no longer made sense to refer to it as the West or Northwest, so it became the Midwest.

Answer 4

It all depends on who calls it and from what point(place). It is called 'Midwest' for the same reason Europeans calls West Asia as 'Middle East'. People from the founding 13 states on the eastern seaboard called that.

Answer 5

There once was a man named Jack Midwest and he founded the WEST, so they decided to call it the MIDwest instead of just WEST.