If you don't think Ohio is in the Midwest, you're not alone.
If you think Ohio is in the South, you're apparently not alone. But the bottom line? Most Ohioans believe they live in the Midwest (87.2 percent), according to a new survey from the Middle West Review and Emerson College Polling shared with The Dispatch.
in the groups initial study October 202378% of Ohioans surveyed said the state is Midwestern, though that number is significantly lower than other traditionally Midwestern states, many of which top 90%, The Dispatch previously reported.
The Ohio results intrigued the researchers, so they went back and conducted a larger poll to ask more Ohioans where they live: in the Midwest, the South or Appalachia.
Of the 2,000 responses, Ohioans believe they live
- Midwest: 87.2%
- Appalachia: 9%
- South: 3.9%
While Emerson is still working out the zip code locations of Ohio poll respondents, Middle West Review editor Jon Lauck said the data should reveal that non-Midwestern responses come from areas along the Ohio River and near the West Virginia.
Lauck said the new results “show conclusively that the vast majority of Ohioans consider themselves Midwesterners.”
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