<p>haha.. i just have NO INTEREST in the middle of our country. i probably don't even define midwest right. basically just, anything that's not on/near a coast. haha.</p>
<p>i definitely get out on the east coast. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, a lot of Northeasterners are very provincial like that. I know that since I used to be a Northeastern myself and thought that the midwest was fly-over country.</p>
<p>The Canadians do interchange walleye with pickerel and yellow pike. It's especially confusing as the walleye is neither a pickerel nor a pike. (I can see how it might be confused as a pike though.)</p>
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<p>That's entirely your loss, seeing as how a fair amount of the last two century's distinguishing cultural, artistic, and political movements have come out America's interior. (Modernism, progressivism, trade-unionism, women's rights, and last, but not least, indie rock.)</p>
<p>The Great Lakes are America's North Coast.</p>
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substantial fraction of the walleye caught and eaten in Minnesota are caught during the ice-fishing season, when Mille Lacs Lake north of the Twin Cities temporarily becomes Minnesota's third largest city, filled with thousands of ice-fishing shacks. Now THAT'S a distinguishing regional feature.
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<p>Sort of like how Watkins Glen becomes New York's second largest city the weekend of the race?</p>
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Yeah, a lot of Northeasterners are very provincial like that.
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<p>Especially New Englanders. God do I have a dislike for New Englanders.</p>