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I want you to imagine the American Midwest.

Don't think about what it looks like as a landscape — instead, imagine you were to put the Midwest on a map. What would it look like geographically?

Have you got it?

Some of you may be picturing the Midwest like this — the way the Census defines it. It includes North Dakota and South Dakota, as well as Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.
 

 

For others, things may look a little different. Here are just a few published maps of the Midwest, from an educational resources site, an