Klarinet Archive - Posting 000450.txt from 2003/11

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music Museum
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:21:58 -0500

Nope, sorry, Mark. It's the Prairies. I wasn't disputing culture, and don't wish
to now, just insisting on the proper name for the region, and I stand by it. In
my eyes, it's the same issue as Americans who call Vancouver, B.C. part of the
Pacific Northwest. Incorrect. The Pacific Northwest is the Pacific Northwestern
part of the United States. Vancouver is not part of that. It is the West Coast
of Canada and is always called that, or southern B.C.

Best

Audrey

Mark Gresham wrote:

> 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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