By the strictest definitions, it's Appalachian. The fact that this question can be debated so intensely really evinces the need to recognize the Great Lakes as it's own separate region. If pressed to choose between Northeastern or Midwestern, I'd call it Midwestern. I certainly don't feel like I'm out of the Midwest in NEOH, and it's not that far from Pittsburgh.
There's a lot of the Rust Belt that isn't "MidWest". There are a ton of small cities in Northern and Western Massachusetts and New Hampshire that feel very Rust Belty and you wouldn't consider them MidWest. You can say the same about Albant, Buffalo, and Rochester.
Exactly. That's why it's so annoying when people say stuff like Indiana is "the South of the Midwest" when it was more Republican than the other Great Lakes states ... states and areas can have a "rural" characteristic or a "culturally conservative" characteristic or a "Rust Belt" characteristic or an "urban" characteristic, etc. without becoming part of the region most associated with those characteristics, LOL. Every state in the union has urban, suburban, rural and other areas, and those areas are still a part of that state in that region. Period.Except calling Indiana "the South of the Midwest"
makes sense.
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