Originally Posted by
Cledaybuck
I don't think I have ever heard Michigan and Ohio be described as not midwestern before. Culturally, they are very much midwestern. If you want to say Buffalo and Pittsburgh have more in common with midwestern cities than the east coast, I would buy that.
Have to agree. My mother is from Cincinnati and my father is from NYC. Perhaps Cincinnati and Cleveland as cities has stuff in common with NYC, but rural Ohio is much closer to say Iowa or Nebraska than it is to New York in terms of culture. The closest would be that in the early part of the 20th Centrury, certain structures in Cincinnati were built and then used as models for structures built in NYC, such as the Carew Tower for the Empire State Building or the Roebling Suspension Bridge for the Brooklyn Bridge.