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highplainsdem

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14. Do you mean northern tier? That's different from northern. According to the regional map shown on

Reply to Prairie Gates (Reply #13)

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 11:47 PM

Mar 2025

this CDC page, the north central region of the US goes far enough south to include Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/sources-definitions/geographic-region.htm

This is the Northern Tier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Tier_(United_States)

Notice that 6 states there in the middle of the country are at least in part as far north as what are called the Northern Tier states.

Anyway, people mean different things by northern states.

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