OK - Colorado - Midwest or no?

[Taverner]

Half of it is plains plains plains as far as the eye can see. And it borders Kansas and Nebraska to its left.

But the other half is mountains as high as an elephants eye...

[CreekDog]

1. Nah

It's pretty safely in the West.

Whatever region you call Idaho, Wyoming, Utah (and possibly Nevada) is the one to count Colorado in.

I also can't get my head around term with "West" in it that includes Ohio.

[Taverner]

4. Or that Northwestern University is neither North nor West

[fizzgig]

5. some people call the region the intermountain west

[CreekDog]

6. yeah, that's what i called it when i lived there

but always seemed like the area between Sierras/Cascades and the Rockies.

[fizzgig]

2. absolutely not

we're the west, thank you very much.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Nope.

Mountain West -- even though, as you say, half of it is flat as a pancake. I go to Denver a lot and I always like that contrast of those huge mountains rising out of the edge of flatness.

[Writer]

7. We call it the Mountain West.

Some of our colleges are in the Mountain West Conference.

There's mountains - we slope off the Great Divide, so we're definitely "west."