Re: Question about Ellis Island

In article <ovadncqiWfGoeyPanZ2dnUVZ_rWtnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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	singhals <singhals@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> Robert Grumbine wrote:
> 
>> In article <HOOdnYzewLt2yiXanZ2dnUVZ_q6mnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> singhals  <singhals@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> [snip]
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>>>Mid-West.  To me, Midwest is everything between the 
>>>Alleghany Mountains and the Rocky Mountains.  I've heard 
>>>other definitions from people born in some of those states 
>>>-- Texas in particular disapproves of it. (g)
>> 
>> 
>>   Likewise us non-Texans :-)
>> 
>>   One definition of some historical relevance is that the
>> midwest is the states composed wholly or in part of the 
>> old Northwest Territory -- Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois,
>> Wisconsin, and Minnesota.  
>> 
> 
> 
> It is simply easier and more diplomatic for me to be 
> all-inclusive. "Mid west" means something to the speaker and 
> ALWAYS includes something between the mountains.  More than 
> that, one has to inquire of the speaker.
> 
> I could be flip here with an example, but I won't.
> 
> Cheryl

Oh, go ahead!  Why should _you_ be different?

(My part of Texas is closer to California than to Houston.
What does that make us here?)

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