Midwestern regional identity

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The problem with having a midwestern identity is that it contains several different parts. The major parts are industry (rust belt), farming, confederacy border states, and depending on how you define the midwest ranching. These all have distinctly different cultures, and you cant really lump southern MO, MN, and Detroit into the same anything.

This is unlike the south, acela corridor, New England, pacific west, west coast, etc.