acsenray
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« on: July 19, 2004, 08:49:55 AM » |
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Ohio has at least _four_ regions, not three.
1. There's the northeast, running from Youngstown to Toledo, which is a manufacturing and shipping belt that forms part of the continuum from Pittsburgh to Detroit. This area is part of the old labour movement.
2. There's the southwest, which is part of Appalachia. This is where all the coal came from to feed the mills of the northeast. The principal cities are Chillicothe, Portsmouth, and Athens (a college town).
3. There's central and west-central Ohio, which is a diverse combination of manufacturing, agriculture, high technology, some finance, the arms industry, entrepreneurship, and inventing. This area's principle cities are Columbus and Dayton. You could call this area the "midwestern" part of Ohio, but it's much more diverse than places like Iowa and Nebraska.
4. Cincinnati. This city and its nether regions are separate from the "midwestern" part of Ohio. It's much, much more conservative than the rest of the state. Furthermore, it was once a center of the meat-packing industry, which was not really such a big influence in the rest of the state.
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