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Colours and appearance

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I have made a proposal to change the colour of the map box, please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. regions --Qirex 05:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OH, IN, MI, KY, TN, AL

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The states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennesee, and Alabama aren't far from the Atlantic Ocean at all! I mean they are closer to New York City than they are to Lebanon,Kansas (the most central city in the United States). I don't even think these should be striped! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.106.143.214 (talk) 00:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan are traditionally considered Midwestern states, which technically makes them part of the Central US; while parts of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama (as well as parts of Indiana and Michigan) are in the Central Time Zone, also tying them to the center. Frank12 00:04, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Very late reply, but that would not be technical. None of those first three states (Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan) are even very close to the true center of the United States. They aren't really central states, although the US Census Bureau does refer to them that way. Dustin talk 02:56, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Central states should be the ones that are all in the Central time zone and on the eastbank of the Mississippi river, and the ones that are in the Central time zone and on the westbank of the Mississippi river. Its not all pretty yet it works while dividing the continuous U.S. into six regions of states, with Missouri, Colorado, Utah, Neveda, and California split between northern and southern regions overall; Northest, Northcentral, Northwest, Southeast, Southcentral, and Southwest. The Northcentral would be Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri north of the Missouri river. The Southcentral would be Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri south of the Missouri river. The Northeast would be from New Jersey and Maine to Indiana and Michigan. The Southeast would be from Florida and Delaware to Alabama and Kentucky. The Northwest would be from Nebraska and North Dakota to California north of 40 degrees and Washington. The Southwest would be from Texas and Kansas to California south of 40 degrees. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.95.218.64 (talk) 06:34, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Geographic Central United States

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This page should say something about the geographic central area of the United States, disregarding state boundaries or Census regions. I would say something along the lines of, roughly, Kansas, and most of the states that share a border with it. This might result in the possible need to cut up states, meaning, for example, only the Texas Panhandle region of Texas would be included. I might include states farther to the south, because I think that there is a bit of a northward bias of the geographic center of the United States as a result of including more than just land area. I think it would be good if this included the center of the US by both latitude and longitude. So, any ideas? Dustin talk 02:56, 26 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to guess that the reason for which I have not received any replies after nearly three months is that there are so few watchers of this page. Dustin (talk) 21:39, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This article doesn't really pay any attention to actual geography, it only seems to pay attention to either the very rough longitudinal middle area of the US (too far east) and to the Census regions, which are not geographic. I will repeat that there should be some sort of discussion of the actual area, disregarding political boundaries and other roughly defined areas, such as the "Midwest." Dustin (talk) 21:44, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This article is in exceptionally poor shape. Considerable expansion could be undertaken. Dustin (talk) 03:18, 16 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can you find actual citations where the phrase "Central United States" is used in such a geographic centroid sense similar to Geographic center of the United States? I have not seen the phrase used that way. The current article on the other hand cites actual examples of usage. --JWB (talk) 19:07, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you should take a look at the timestamp of my comments you are replying to. I have long since abandoned this discussion. That said, perhaps you were simply acknowledging the possibility of me returning anyway, even if this is a dated discussion? While I do believe that people in various newsmedia are more likely to refer the "Central United States" in reference to Kansas and surrounding states than somewhere like Texas or Minnesota, there are few sources or maps depicting such an ideal map (at least which I could find), and as such, there remained little purpose in continuing to press the issue. Dustin (talk) 19:40, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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