Re: Question about Ellis Island

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	mojaveg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Everett M. Greene) writes:
> bobg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Robert Grumbine) writes:
>> singhals  <singhals@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>> [snip]
>> >
>> >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 :-)
> 
> Which brings to mind the question as to why Texas is
> known as the Southwest.  Texas is nearly in the center
> of the east-west axis of the U.S.  California is as
> far south as Texas and quite a bit more west but isn't
> considered part of the Southwest.

Probably because California is on the West Coast - you
can't go much farther west without getting your feet wet.
Texas, well, maybe because to get there, back in the day,
you had to go south and west from most likely starting
places.  Still, the Southwest, as a region, encomp*****
not only Texas, but New Mexico and Arizona, as well.  All
of which means absolutely nothing.

Way I look at it, the way Joel Garreau describes the regional
"arrangement" best in "The Nine Nations of North America", 
which I heartily recommend, tho' it is a bit out-dated.

<snip>

Bob

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