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Oh hey, it looks like there's been a recent surge of people here. In that case, why don't we get a banner thread up and going?
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Welcome to /midwest/, or as we like to call it, the Midbest.

This is a board for Midwesterners to discuss the Midwest, and anything goes really as long as it's related to the Midwest within reason. Don't spam either.

Since there are 3 hundred million differentiation's on what states make up the Midwest, this board goes by what Wikipedia says the Midwest is, so if your not sure, this picture will give you the idea of what states are relevant for this board.

People from elsewhere are obviously allowed to post too however, and since country flags are disabled, whatever flag you choose is what everyone will assume you are.

Enjoy your stay faggots!

Other NA Region Boards:
>>>/pnw/ (Pacific Northwest) - British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and NorCal.
>>>/texas/ (Texas)
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If you don't live within a 5 minute drive of a great lake get the fuck out of my face homie

>tfw will literally never run out of water because in the event of some catastrophic world drought I could just drive or walk two miles north to the lake to get some water
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Midwestern independence

Here's a topic

How would the Midwest do independently? With all the secession talk, I thought this might be fun.

also some OC for ya

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FUCK OHIO
TOLEDO IS RIGHTFUL MICHIGANDER CLAY
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Any fellow bored brothers and sisters from Missouri?

And which Missouri, Urban (Kansas City/St Louis) or Rural?
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Any Indiana fags here?
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moving within the midwest?

sup /midwest/

currently living in west burbs of Shitcongo, been thinking of moving (because of price, area, people)

for the longest time i thought about going out west to washington or oregon, but lately i've been thinking there aint no place like home, so maybe i'll stick around the midwest, but not around Shitcongo

recommend me a location around the lakes

>single, need cheapish rent (but not projects)

>prefer small town/city feels

>prefer lake/river area

just need to get away from the Shitcongo vibe

dont mind the winters, but would prefer not to freeze to death, and having nature around matters to me

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Hey /midwest/, how does it feel to be the least poor region in America (region with the lowest percentage of people in poverty).
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I've lived in Illinois for my whole life, up until this past fall. I now live in >>>/texas/ , and only now just realized how much worse it was in Illinois besides the small town I grew up in. When did Illinois get so shitty?

pic unrelated

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Midwest flag

Flag thread. Everyone make a flag for the Midwest.

>the south has a flag, northeast has a flag, but we don't

time to fix that

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Midwest Feels

>live in the midwest
>have zero connections to agriculture
>travel elsewhere
>people find out where I'm from
>The midwest? So you're a farmer then right Anon? What kind of crops do you grow?
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Going to the Iowa State Fair this year, mainly to see the clusterfuck of presidential wannabes shilling. What can I expect?

Pic hopefully not related

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You guys are all so fucking kawaii. Let me explain why, as a New Englander, I love the midwest:

>relaxed, sincere and honest like the deep south pretends to be

>not racist like the deep south
>productive as shit
>rustic areas have cool old memorabilia like working retro pinball machines, I cry evrytim
>all sorts of neat wildlife like cranes and shit
>people not constantly pretending their irrelevant community social cause is what the species was created for (in my experience, at least)
>at least 80% of the voting population in any given state is actually corn
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Oklahoma

So are these guys the midwest, the south, or the south west? They get called a southern state a lot but I guess a lot of southerners don't consider them to be so.
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>Decide

http://strawpoll.me/3620378
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>mfw Gary, Indiana

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>be me

>go back and forth between NY and IN

>wear white sneakers and american flag shirt once in NY for the irony

>didn't know it's apparently considered a midwestern thing

>all the store clerks I meet ask me where I grew up

>mfw I have a heavy east coast/russian accent

>tfw I say Indiana but I travel back and forth

>oh you live on the farm then? Is New York uncomfortable for you? How can you live here? Do you like gays?

I didn't ask for this

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Michigans alright

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>/midwest/

>nothing to do on the board either

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Can Kentucky be considered part of you guys? We are kind of in the south, but Louisville and Lexington are very close to the Midwest culturally and geographically.

pls senpai

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Are you guys ready for the inevitable exodus of californians?
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Lonely Montana

Can Montana into Midwest? The Northwest doesn't accept us and we have little in common with the west coast in general.

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Have you taken the brown pill yet, mateys?

it's a tough pill to swallow! The brown pill was founded in 1999 by Sir Reginald Brownpill, who presents and narrates the attached video.

Forget red and blue pills, brown pills are the way of the future.

Video related. Please leave your questions, comments, and concerns below about this radical new paradigm of thinking!f

Swawerllow the brown pill today! Red pills are for fedora fucking wearing faggots, blue pills are for the ignorant masses. Ignore the other le epin /pol/ maymays, this one is the readl deal.awerw

I LIVE IN KANSAAAAAS

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Madison, WI?

Any Madison or general Wisconsin residents on this board? I was wondering if we could discuss the city as I might be moving there for my career but am extremely hesitant.

>Live in a really nice far western suburb of Shitcongo almost all my life (Kane/DuPage area)

>Have a nice apartment, it's expensive, yet the cheapest in the area, never taking it for granted
>Have been out of a job and running out of money for a long time
>Got a 43k offer in Madison
>Went there and have scanned around on Google maps
>The campuses are nice but everything else seems like dreary half-empty strip malls and random factories in the middle of commercial areas
>All the apartments are either really gross shit aimed at college students, really expensive shit, or good newly built shit that's out in the middle of a field near the highway

To move or not to move, that is the question? All I hear is that Madison is "so wonderful" for some reason or another, but it seems that outside of the college campus and capitol area, it's ugly and depressing as fuck.
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Wisconsin?

Any other Wisconsin/Michigan Peninsula residents here?

I live is South Eastern WI

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Assistance Requested!

Can any /midwest/s tell me what this hollow cylinder is called?
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Nigger

y r there so many niggers in the midwest
image related
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How high is the corn in Oklahomie?

How high is the corn in Oklahomie?

The corn is as high as an elephant's eye,
An' it looks like its climbin' clear up to the sky
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Just sharing this song about living in the Midwest

Feel free to share related songs.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail
Hoppin' down the bunny trail
Hippity hop hop Easter's on it's way

Happy Easter flyover states
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North Dakota is good in most ways.

There's a very low proportion of niggers and thus a relatively low crime rate, the economy is good, etc.

However…
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heh
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Lets discuss hipsters and hipster stories.

Despite most midwestern states thwarting these people for the most part, are they in your state? If so, where, and how do they act? How extreme are they compared to hipsters in other places like California? Do they hate the locals and want to move out?
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>tfw returned to the midwest after three long years away
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Hello, /midwest/. >>>/texas/ owner here. You asked me if you wanted me to join your board region ring, and I said sure. I added this board, and >>>/pnw/ to the announcements, but you have yet to link /texas/. Could you please update that? Also, does /pnw/ owner know about me wanting to join? He hasn't updated his sticky either and I was going to bug him too. Don't mean to come across as an asshole, if it seems that way, just want it updated.

I also hope that you haven't linked already in the sticky by the time it takes for me to finish writing this post
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So do you ever go to any midwestern nerd conventions? Sure, most of them are small, but It's always nice to meet people somewhat similar to you in an area where most people don't share your interests at all.

It's true that at least half the people who go there are annoying as hell and you are completely incompatible with, but there's always those few cool people who are nice to talk to, especially in the video game rooms.
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yiff

hey /midwest/
which Pokémon would you fuck?
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What do you guys think of St. Joseph, Missourah?
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300 get
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Who else misses this fucking show?

Anyone else think this is one of the few TV shows that actually got their stereotype of an area right?
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>tfw my college mascot could whoop your college mascot
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>tfw 6-8 inches of snow
Feels good to live in Ohio for once
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Amish, Mennonites etc

Do you have any Amish, Mennonites or similar religious communities in your area? What kind of interactions have you had with them?

Here on the Northern Missourah/Southern Iowa border we have a mix of both. The Mennonites live mostly below the border and the Amish above. I do not have much experience with the Amish but the Mennonites come into frequently to shop at the Walmart and elsewhere. In the spring, summer and autumn they come to the town's farmer's market. They're nice people and the families that come sell baked goods, eggs, unpasteurized milk and sometimes cured meats.
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So, how many of you live in the city, and how many of you live in small towns/cities and rural areas?
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What are some landmarks, and also "landmarks" where you live? They can be interesting or dull, it doesn't matter.
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Weed Legalization Thread

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2015/01/ideological_divides_spark_controversy_inside_Missourahs_marijuana_movement.php

What is the progress of weed legalization in your state? What is your opinion on weed?


For me, I really don't understand why so many people in Missourah are against weed, because you would think that since the local stereotype is a bored methhead, there would have been enough bored stoners around who would have got this law into existence long before now. It's just weed for fucks sakes, and I wish stupid people like Bill O'Reilly would stop making old people believe it's worse for you than alcohol.
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>mfw this board

So, how many of you here are midwesterners, stuck out of state? Whats your experience living out of state?

I grew up on the MN/WI border, and god do I miss it.

Comfy mostly white town with some diversity, next to no crime, graduated from a nice highschool. Always used to think stereotypes were a bunch of bull that was just made up by white supremacists somewhere

Now I am stuck in the deep south, Louisiana. Every single bad stereotype you have ever seen of both white and black people, is here. Duck Dynasty may be actors, but the rednecks here are not. Illiteracy, crime, fights on the street, garbage everywhere, everyone is lazy, nobody can be assed to walk briskly across the street, people line up to individual self checkout lines, pants hanging low, teeth missing, killings, theft, packs of wild dogs roaming the streets, decrepit falling down buildings littering main street, a checkerboard of "White part of town" "black part of town", everyone is rude to strangers, everyone is lazy, no work ethic, the list goes on and on and on

I've gone from heaven on earth, to a desolate third world country. I hate it here. I want to go home to the midwest.
And I will, soon
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who /literallya2minutedrivefromagreatlake/ here
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Tornadoes and experiences with them

See title. Everyone ought to have one.

The town I live in has this little ropy landspout that forms a few times every spring and follows almost the exact same path every time. We call it "Frank". He usually doesn't get very big and he never bothers anyone but at least once some dumb tourists got too close in a rental jeep and had their car flipped.

We call him by name every time we see him, exclaiming "Frank's back!"
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Wrestling

I know there's a lot of WWE/wrestling fans in the midwest, so I'm inviting y'all to come over to >>>/wwe/ for fun posting about everyone's favorite tv sport rasslin'
NXT will be in columbus this march, 22$/ticket, and tickets go on sale later this month. in case you dont know, NXT is the best WWE product at the moment
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Chicago is best.
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FERGUSON UPDATE

23 October 2014

Mike brown had weed in his system according to the final autopsy.

Autopsy also determined he was in a position where he didn't have his hands up to surrender, but to charge at Officer Wilson.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/official-autopsy-shows-michael-brown-had-close-range-wound-to/article_e98a4ce0-c284-57c9-9882-3fb7df75fef6.html

Several people in the Canfield Green Apartments also can confirm Wilson's side of the story but did not want to publicly come forward out of fear of retribution.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/source-darren-wilson-says-michael-brown-kept-charging-at-him/article_d2cf8b20-c517-592b-96ba-77d8a5f46fef.html

Infighting is occuring over how to spend the money raised for Brown's family this week. One person had to go to the hospital after being assaulted with a metal pipe.
http://fox2now.com/2014/10/22/police-investigating-assault-and-theft-following-argument-between-brown-family-relatives/


Governor Jay Nixon announced a commission for Ferguson. It will take about six months to complete.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/nixon-announces-commission-to-study-issues-raised-by-ferguson/article_c4838ab4-3815-5d39-9eea-af934904f1c6.html

State Senator Jamilah Nasheed was arrested this week for being stupid.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/state-sen-nasheed-freed-from-jail-explains-her-symbolic-arrest/article_bc0bcccc-11b0-5a51-9e73-7ad028efd35a.html

Flashmob raided St. Louis County headquarters.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/activists-confront-officers-inside-st-louis-county-police-headquarters/article_e0d9f1e2-6b5b-550a-b61f-1354707a6b1f.html

They we're as successful doing that at Ferguson police headquarters.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-arrest-in-protest-outside-ferguson-police-headquarters/article_ed0e4641-b2d7-5de8-b3df-81163fbfde37.html

And because being a white douchbag from Keene, New Hampshire makes it OK to riot at a pumpkin festival, a couple of Ferguson folks in Clayton had something to say about that too.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/smashing-pumpkins-in-clayton-leads-to-three-arrests-for-littering/article_141024f2-8384-5e06-92a8-49e7c05c5703.html
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SJWs crash St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Organized by some 42 year old white woman from the affluent part of the Central West End (south of Delmar Blvd), this went down at the St. Louis Symphony Orchistra last night (10/4/14)

http://fox2now.com/2014/10/04/michael-brown-protesters-interrupt-symphony/

Expect the SLSO to call off some minority events geared at encouraging blacks to get involved with the arts.

That's another thing. What the fuck is wrong with black people in that they think going to a play makes you gay when they have their pants on the ground which is really used in prison to signal "I'm open to letting you fuck me in the ass"?
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More Deadspin Dickbaggery

Was I downtown at Ballpark Village last night? Yes.
Did the Mike Brown folks show up? Yeah, I was expecting they would, but when I did not know.
Is there anyone more dickbaggish than SJWs: The folks at Deadspin.

http://deadspin.com/cardinals-fans-get-ugly-in-clash-with-ferguson-proteste-1643282285

I was too busy eating my weight in Chicken Kebobs and Ted Drews Frozen Custard to give a shit about the Mike Brown protest or the White People who secretly pose as SJWs online to cover up for their racism in real life. And boy did the white people not disappoint.
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Ferguson, Missouri

The rules of this thread:
1. No hate! White hate will be banned. Black hate will be banned.
2. No SJW or Nazi buillshit. (We've got enough of that IRL here!) See rule 1 if I wasn't clear.
3. "I'm not racist but…" implies that you are racist.
4. OPFerguson is a bigger fag than OP!
5. Just be FUCKING NICE to one another!
6. Not enough Jews in North St. Louis County to blame them. But we have a Mosque in Hazelwood so I suppose that's fair game.
7. Mediafags can submit their questions to Half-chan's /b/
8. This thread is NOT part of the Chimpire. This isn't Reddit's /r/Ferguson.
9. Out-of-towners (OOTs) from Chicago and Detroit should wipe the shit off their own boots before critizing the shit on the boots on any Fergfag or STLfag.
10. Stitches only make your face look COOLER! So snitch on that nigga!