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Best of: What does it mean to be in the Midwest?

In 2023, researchers from the Middle West Review asked 11,000 people from 22 states their perceptions of Midwestern identity.

Almost 94 percent of Illinoisans who responded said yes, they live in the Midwest. But Midwestern identity stretches farther than that. For example, more than half of the people from Wyoming who responded said yes, they too live in the Midwest and consider themselves to be Midwesterners.

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