β² 370 βΌ Country Rooooads! (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by vsoponge@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world 20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] Rato@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Midwest comes from when the East Coast was the only heavily populated part of the US, and the rest of it was just called "The West." permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] tyler@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago I understand where it came from. It has been incorrect for over a hundred years. It was actually called the North Central Region up until 1984, so we've literally regressed from the 80s. https://web.archive.org/web/20240926043523/https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/regions_and_divisions.html permalink fedilink source parent
[β] tyler@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago I understand where it came from. It has been incorrect for over a hundred years. It was actually called the North Central Region up until 1984, so we've literally regressed from the 80s. https://web.archive.org/web/20240926043523/https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/regions_and_divisions.html permalink fedilink source parent
