Hmm, Texas and Oklahoma in the South also feels funny.

Well, those are descriptive of the geography, I’ll give them that.

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Although I did know there’s a great deal of controversy over how far east if goes, and people laugh at New Yorkers for thinking of Cleveland as basically the same as Kansas.

In Canada, the Prairies go from the Rockies to the Shield region where things get stony and boggy. And extend north until it’s too forested for the descriptor to apply, maybe a quarter of the way to the Arctic coast on average (so it’s mostly taiga nd tundra with just a little bit of farmable area).

Is West what the census calls it, too?

I can say for sure none of it’s very Northwestern; even eastern Washington is more like Idaho than the coast.

Rockies is fair, for the part that they actually run through, which seems to be more like a third of the area and inevitably less populated. I guess that’s the part they like to advertise, though, and clearly it has worked.