Also, who are these Pennsylvanians that think they are mid-westerners? People on the western side of the Appalachians, I assume.

I find this map interesting. I never considered myself a mid-westerner when I lived in Colorado. Maybe folks on the border of Colorado and Kansas do, but that's pretty sketchy to me still. East of the Front Range cities the land, economy, and people are as Midwestern as Kansas and Nebraska.

East of the Front Range cities the land, economy, and people are as Midwestern as Kansas and Nebraska. Actually that makes a lot of sense. People who work the land or participate in the economy most associated with the mid-west probably consider themselves mid-westerners. Farming, Cattle, Resources, etc. Although for Colorado I never participated in any of that and Colorado is changing. Perhaps that's why I never considered myself mid-western and didn't associate from Colorado who would consider themselves mid-western. While there is a big farm, ranch, and resource economy on the eastern plans of Colorado; there is also high-tech (Denver-Boulder), military (Colorado Springs), and finance (Denver-Colorado Springs). If I was to put Colorado in a regional category it would have been Rocky Mountain. I'd probably put Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana in that. Pennsylvania I would probably place in Mid-atlantic or North-east.

Pittsburg is considered a rust-belt city like much of the mid-west.

Hey Everyone, since state legislatures are beginning new sessions at this time of year, if you could add the leadership races from your home state, that would be great. So much of state politics is covered by local journalism (and paywalled nowadays), so you might have better insight on how those races went (caucus and full chamber votes). Thanks!

Wanted to make a major proposition here Because I wasn't sure where to do it. This proposition would absolutely take a long time to do because of the history of each. It should be noted that We have three Lower houses with the name of State Assembly (Wisconsin, California, New York) Nevada's is actually just "the Assembly" We Also have the New Jersey General Assembly and three states (Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia) that call their lower house the house of delegates. So I'd like to propose that we fix the st. rep positions in these Staters. We can keep the position as the same but we can add the titles down below so that it corresponds correctly because in those states they aren't technically State Reps. As well only 10 states actually have "State Senates" The other 40 are just known as the Senate. The State Senates are California, New York, Connecticut, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Louisiana, Mississippi, Utah and Washington. Obviously it's quite an undertaking but I'm willing to work on it.