Klarinet Archive - Posting 000449.txt from 2003/11

From: Mark Gresham <mgresham@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music Museum
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:38:20 -0500

Audrey Travis wrote:
> Mark, thank you for the interesting look at American geography. Of course,
> Canada is not party of American (though it is North American) geography, but
> more to the point, Canadians in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba would
> either laugh or be insulted to be told they were living in the Midwest. They
> don't live in anyone's Midwest. Canadians call these three provinces the
> Prairies.

And they share the same "Great Plains" culture as their counterparts
south of the 49th. So since there have been several objections to
"Midwest" (which I used as follow-up to James O'Briant's reference to
the town in South Dakota) how about let's substitute "Plains" or
"Breadbasket" (because it includes more area eastward than the Great
Plains) for the geographical region I described)? Although Minnesotans
might refer to being in the "upper midwest" as much as residents of
Missouri refer to themselves as being in "mid-America," a more
encompassing term for the whole cultural region is fine by me, and
"Breadbasket" is the term used by a primary source of inspiration for
these geo-cultural thoughts. (And I do think the wheat and barley
growers in Alberta, Saskatechwan, and Manitoba would gladly assent to
that better term, perhaps?)

I would be happy to drop "Midwest" in favor of "Breadbasket."

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