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Originally posted by tld221
okay, maybe we should have a geography thread on here!
(checking mapquest.com...)
wow... illinois is more midwest than i thought! i seriously thought it was "up north"! however, looking at the map, it is more northern... its almost parallel to nyc, and no one ever calls nyc "down south" (unless ur from maine j/k)
so its a toss up between up north and midwest.
my .02
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Parallel to NYC??? Most of Illinois is Midwest, but Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (my alma mater) is in the southern tip of Illinois near the Kentucky border. And since I have to go south of St. Louis (my home town) to get to it, I consider southern Illinois to be south. And when you go there you can tell the difference between Chicago/northern Illinois and down state.
Had this discussion on another board. St. Louis is on the "modern day" Mason-Dixon line so anything south of there is south.
