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Amid all the arguing about what states are in the Midwest (frankly, I think the poll numbers quoted somewhere above should be considered dispositive: OH is, KY isn't...), I think you've all missed the far more debatable designation of states as "Great Plains". The table in "Definition" lists Iowa, Indiana, Illinois (and others, but that's a nice start) as being Great Plains states, while the Wikipedia article on the Great Plains shows the region not touching any of those states. Now, I know it's not quite that simple, and as with the Midwest designation there are probably many reasonable points of view (and some unreasonable ones) represented hereon, so I suggest... let's just delete the designations entirely.

I'll let it sit for a while, but if no one makes an argument for keeping the extraneous references in the "Definition" section, I'm removing them. atakdoug (talk) 19:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

The table does not look useful. If you want to know what the referenced regions are, it is more effective to just follow their links. --JWB (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 04:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Grain Belt argument

I know it's been a while since I've argued/discussed on here, but maybe we can consider the Grain and Corn belts as a good way to describe Midwestern states in terms of similar cultures and related regions? Frank12 (talk) 04:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

i find it very interesting even though there are very little facts shown —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.213.237.130 (talk) 23:36, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] States officially in Midwest

I know this has been a point of debate, but an unknown ISP has twice removed several states officially (according to the Census Bureau's geographic regions) considered part of the Midwest from the introduction of the article. Not only is the ISP wrong to unilaterally remove them (because, regardless of differing definitions, all states listed ARE officially in the Midwest), but by removing them he or she creates a contradiction between the intro and the rest of the article, which refers to all of those states as being in the Midwest. I've undone the revisions both times, but I wanted to discuss them to avoid an edit war, particularly with an unregistered user. Pmr2011 (talk) 01:34, 20 April 2008 (UTC)