I found it amusing that when I went to school in Iowa, locals considered Pennsylvania east coast, but a decade later, when I was working in NYC, the locals considered my hometown to be in the "midwest."The twelve states that make up the Midwest:
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Also known as 'The Heartland'. It may not seem "midwest" to people, but you have to realize that when England gave it that term, anything not close to the eastern seaboard was considered 'west' to them. They hadn't even populated the Pacific coastal regions yet.