Talk:Eastern United States

message: 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 05:36, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Colours and appearance

message: So the border would either be the continental divide or or the Mississippi River, right?
:In terms of today, those would be the most common natural borders. An older (and defunct) demarcation was the Appalachian Mountains, a less common modern defintion might be where the eastern forests ends. -JCarriker 19:16, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  whats the natural border? 

message: The article states that the Mississippi River is the normal dividing line.  However, the graphic shows Illinois and Wisconsin as striped states.  Both are east of the river.  Could someone fix this? Will 05:04, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mississippi River descrepancy 

message: This article should be constructed as the West Coast article is. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DDavis092 (talk • contribs) 01:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yup. 

message: Whoa, there, this whole article needs to be redone. I'm from Maryland and definitely don't think of Ohio as being Eastern, much less Louisiana or Michigan or any of the other random states you have thrown in there. The Eastern states are: Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Northeast. That's it. Ohio is midwestern, and Alabama, Mississippi, and all of those people down there are Southerners, not Easterners. 
SwedishConqueror 06:45, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just curious, what part of Ohio are you from?  In Northwestern Ohio, many of us consider ourselves Midwestern, so I wondered if you're from Eastern or Southern Ohio.  I see the argument to make Ohio either Eastern or Midwestern, but it gets stuck with the pleasure of constant debate.  I'd say it's more of a regional border state, Midwesternnortheast if I may suggest. :) Frank12 00:29, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

text: There's a difference between the East and the East Coast.  States like Ohio, Michigan, Alabama, Illinois, etc are not East Coast, but they are East.  The East is recognized as everything from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River.  Missouri is considered to straddle East and West.  St Louis is described as the "last eastern city" going westward, and Kansas City is "the first western city".  The "East" is a macroregion that consists of the Northeast (NY, NJ, PA, and New England), most of the South, and a good chunk of the Midwest (IL, WI, MI, IN, OH). Skyduster (talk) 01:22, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: What?

message: An official flag for the region of Eastern United States has been created. Can I receive help on how to post the flag into the article. Thank You.
:Who created this flag, and can you please sign your comments? Skyduster (talk) 01:18, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official Flag 

message: By both city population and metro population, Baltimore is larger than several of the "22 largest cities in the East".  Given that 22 is a random number, perhaps Baltimore should be added and the caption changed to read "23 largest cities in the East".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.200.122.133 (talk) 17:49, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  22 Largest Cities in the Eastern United States 

message: A glaring omission was Atlanta on the original list of 22 cities. Considering Atlanta's population hovers around 537,000 people and counting, it is considerably larger in city-proper population and metro population that several of the other listed cities. The Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA MSA is the ninth largest metro area in the United States, certainly earning it a spot in the most populous eastern cities.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.183.87 (talk) 14:51, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest Cities and Metro Areas, Glaring Omissions 

message: Substituted at 14:02, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: Kansas is one of the original States referred to as the Midwest (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/11100/15909). The Old Northwest states took the Midwest moniker to make them appear more attractive to new immigrants.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.207.250.61 (talk) 17:18, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Midwest section citing Kansas and Missouri a recently included in the region 

message: The definition of Eastern United States really needs to be changed. I would usually consider Florida, West Virginia, Maybe Ohio, and all the land making up the original 13 colonies. A lot of people differ, but most people in no way thinks of the term going so inward of the United States. All rational people can agree that Wisconsin and Minnesota are not part of the Eastern United States. Ethan Parmet (talk) 18:37, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of Definition 

message: The "Eastern" US, as it's defined here, isn't even recognized as an American regional bloc. For cultural and economic reasons, the Southeast is always considered separately from the Northeast, and sometimes the Northeast is broken into the Mid-Atlantic and New England states. "The East" is never discussed as one region because the North and South vote differently, have different economies and different cultures.
So does this article meet Wiki's notability requirements? I don't think so.Jonathan f1 (talk) 13:22, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: East coast is all the Atlantic states plus Pennsylvania, and the Eastern US isn’t even used. Northeast, South, and Great Lakes/Midwest are used. This is not a good article. PhilDaBirdMan (talk) 00:09, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article should be removed imo 

message: It says there are 28 states east of the Mississippi river, but there are only 26. Is the population number correct, anyways?
Josh Theta (talk) 02:12, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The second paragraph 

message: The number of States completely east of the Mississippi is 26–not 28:
New England (ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, & RI)
Mid-Atlantic (NY, PA, NJ, MD, & DE)
States that once comprised the Commonwealth of Virginia (VA, KY, & WV)
Deep South (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, & TN)
Great Lakes (OH, IN, IL, MI, & WI)
Bayowolf (talk) 21:07, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of States