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Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 22 20:44:05 IST 2004


At 20:14 22/07/2004, you wrote:
>Julian Field <mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>     on Thursday, July 22, 2004 12:08 PM said:
>
> >> Ah, I'm sure what he meant to say was that it's mid way up the west
> >> coast, give or take. <g>
> >
> > You mean there's a difference?
>
>assuming your question is not rhetorical...
>
>yes the midwest is sort of the middle northern part of the united
>states*. "mid way up the west coast" is oregon. none of the midwest
>states sit on either coast. if someone told you oregon is in the midwest
>they are mistaken. it is about as far west as you can get save hawaii
>and alaska.

So it's in the middle of the west vertically, not mid-west horizontally.
I understand now. Outside the top right corner and the sticky-out bit at
the bottom, my geography of the USA is pretty shaky. The other 12 countries
I've been to are a lot easier :-)
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