North South Dakota, Mountain Mama just doesn't have the same ring to it.

I will die on the hill that “the midwest USA” means Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, etc. rather than fucking Illinois. Nobody knows the internal or historical politics of another country. When you refer to Midwest on the Internet, people from other countries automatically assume it’s an actual direction. There’s zero reason in this day and age to refer to a region by an outdated, historical term that has no basis in reality, especially when that term is absolutely harmful to understanding.

Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.

Then why didn''t he say "western" Virginia? That would have even worked.

Instead he wrote it in a way that 10000% guaranteed that people thought he meant the State.

That's why I call them Top and Bottom Dakotas.

Even more fun fact he was writing about a road he was driving on in Maryland.