Comments on: Midwest http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/ Truth Will Prevail Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:11:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kaimi Wenger http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302539 Kaimi Wenger Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:19:36 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302539 Road distances, according to Google Maps: El Paso to LA: 801 miles El Paso to Dallas: 638 miles El Paso to Port Arthur, TX: 843 miles Dallas to Chicago IL: 965 miles Road distances, according to Google Maps:

El Paso to LA: 801 miles
El Paso to Dallas: 638 miles
El Paso to Port Arthur, TX: 843 miles

Dallas to Chicago IL: 965 miles

]]> By: Adam Greenwood http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302530 Adam Greenwood Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:25:59 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302530 <i>56.- El Paso, TX is closer to Los Angeles than Dallas. - Dallas is closer to Chicago than El Paso. Neither of these statements is true. Consult Mapquest. </i> Both statements are true, depending on what part of the comparison you think is elided. 56.- El Paso, TX is closer to Los Angeles than Dallas.
- Dallas is closer to Chicago than El Paso.

Neither of these statements is true. Consult Mapquest.

Both statements are true, depending on what part of the comparison you think is elided.

]]> By: Adam Greenwood http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302529 Adam Greenwood Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:22:43 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302529 <i>Only in the “deep South” do they think that Arkansas is in the north. Taking a holistic approach, anything that was in the Confederacy is definitely in the South. </i> Hmm. I think its pretty obvious that only the eastern parts of Texas are in the South. Only in the “deep South” do they think that Arkansas is in the north. Taking a holistic approach, anything that was in the Confederacy is definitely in the South.

Hmm. I think its pretty obvious that only the eastern parts of Texas are in the South.

]]> By: Christopher http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302433 Christopher Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:02:12 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302433 Re: #55 and 56. The actual fact is that the community in the northeast corner of Texas, Texarkana, is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso, and El Paso is closer to Los Angeles than it is to Texarkana. Someone, for whatever reason, started replacing Texarkana with Dallas in noting the size of Texas, and it's a pretty commonly repeated mistake. Re: #55 and 56. The actual fact is that the community in the northeast corner of Texas, Texarkana, is closer to Chicago than it is to El Paso, and El Paso is closer to Los Angeles than it is to Texarkana.

Someone, for whatever reason, started replacing Texarkana with Dallas in noting the size of Texas, and it’s a pretty commonly repeated mistake.

]]> By: Uh? http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302429 Uh? Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:36:45 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302429 - El Paso, TX is closer to Los Angeles than Dallas. - Dallas is closer to Chicago than El Paso. Neither of these statements is true. Consult Mapquest. - El Paso, TX is closer to Los Angeles than Dallas.
- Dallas is closer to Chicago than El Paso.

Neither of these statements is true. Consult Mapquest.

]]> By: queuno http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302386 queuno Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:24:26 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302386 <i>Tell [New Yorkers] that it’s twice as far from Chicago to SLC as it is from NYC to Chicago, or that from Denver to SLC is as far as from NYC to Cleveland, and they’ll know for certain that you’re lying. Or just plain nuts. </i> - El Paso, TX is closer to Los Angeles than Dallas. - Dallas is closer to Chicago than El Paso. Tell [New Yorkers] that it’s twice as far from Chicago to SLC as it is from NYC to Chicago, or that from Denver to SLC is as far as from NYC to Cleveland, and they’ll know for certain that you’re lying. Or just plain nuts.

- El Paso, TX is closer to Los Angeles than Dallas.
- Dallas is closer to Chicago than El Paso.

]]> By: queuno http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302385 queuno Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:15:18 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302385 34 - Thanks for recognizing that Texas is its own geographic region. 53 - The most unfortunate thing about the story is that she associated Cleveland with the term "yankee". Clevelanders hate Yankees and their fans (and Red Sox and fans as well). But most native Ohioans consider Cincinnati to be Northern Kentucky, not Ohio. (Just like they haven't decided if they want to give Toledo back to Michigan). But as you say, I like Ohio. And Texas. But Texas is not the Southwest. 34 – Thanks for recognizing that Texas is its own geographic region.

53 – The most unfortunate thing about the story is that she associated Cleveland with the term “yankee”. Clevelanders hate Yankees and their fans (and Red Sox and fans as well). But most native Ohioans consider Cincinnati to be Northern Kentucky, not Ohio. (Just like they haven’t decided if they want to give Toledo back to Michigan). But as you say, I like Ohio. And Texas. But Texas is not the Southwest.

]]> By: Morgan Lee http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302378 Morgan Lee Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:34:13 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302378 Proof that Ohio is not the South: When my dad told his Louisiana-born mother that he was marrying a girl from Cleveland, she openly lamented that he was marrying a yankee. TMD, I would agree with your comment about southern Ohio, with the qualification that it is specifically southeastern Ohio that is Appalachian. Southwestern Ohio (Cincinnati and its suburbs) is very Midwestern, in speech and culture. Actually, taking Ohio as a whole, it really is quite a mix of the Midwest, the south, and the east. They all seem to converge there. It reminds me of Texas. I always thought of Texas as the south until someone contradicted me and said it was the southwest. I've been to Texas several times and after thinking about it decided that in a way this person was right. Texas is south meets southwest meets Mexico, making for a unique and indefinable state. I like Texas. Ohio, too. Proof that Ohio is not the South: When my dad told his Louisiana-born mother that he was marrying a girl from Cleveland, she openly lamented that he was marrying a yankee.

TMD, I would agree with your comment about southern Ohio, with the qualification that it is specifically southeastern Ohio that is Appalachian. Southwestern Ohio (Cincinnati and its suburbs) is very Midwestern, in speech and culture.

Actually, taking Ohio as a whole, it really is quite a mix of the Midwest, the south, and the east. They all seem to converge there. It reminds me of Texas. I always thought of Texas as the south until someone contradicted me and said it was the southwest. I’ve been to Texas several times and after thinking about it decided that in a way this person was right. Texas is south meets southwest meets Mexico, making for a unique and indefinable state. I like Texas. Ohio, too.

]]> By: John Buffington http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302376 John Buffington Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:33:45 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302376 Another instance of geographic misdirection. I was attending Ricks, and was having a conversation with someone from California "Where you from?" "A town back east that you have never heard of." "Try me!" "Ok, I am from Ottawa" "You are right, I never heard of it!" By only calling my hometown Ottawa, I gave the option of allowing them to choose among the many competing Ottawas that are east of Idaho; Ottawa KS, Ottawa IL, Ottawa, OH, Ottawa, WI, or the correct choice in my case, Ottawa, ON the little-known capital of Canada. Another instance of geographic misdirection.

I was attending Ricks, and was having a conversation with someone from California

“Where you from?”
“A town back east that you have never heard of.”
“Try me!”
“Ok, I am from Ottawa”
“You are right, I never heard of it!”

By only calling my hometown Ottawa, I gave the option of allowing them to choose among the many competing Ottawas that are east of Idaho; Ottawa KS, Ottawa IL, Ottawa, OH, Ottawa, WI, or the correct choice in my case, Ottawa, ON the little-known capital of Canada.

]]> By: Jonathan Green http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2009/11/midwest/#comment-302370 Jonathan Green Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:25:31 +0000 http://timesandseasons.org/?p=10168#comment-302370 Nate, Paul Greenberg agrees with you. According to him (publisher of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette), the South stops at the Ozarks. Nate, Paul Greenberg agrees with you. According to him (publisher of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette), the South stops at the Ozarks.

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