Talk:Northwestern United States/Archives/2015

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Despite the fact that there was debate over what the definition of what Pacific Northwest is on Wikipedia talk pages, the fact remains that most Americans define the "Pacific Northwest" as being a region in the US, so I've noted that. I took out the direct link from the article because it was dead. I looked for quite some time for a source that would put Wyoming and Washington into the same discrete geographical region (such as Midwest and New England) and couldn't find one. (Northwestern US in the above examples is analogous to defining the "Northeastern US" as including Indiana and Maine). The closest I could get from the USGS (which was where the link was from) was this[1], but it includes parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado as well, and doesn't claim that the map is of the (Pacific) Northwest, only that it provides information about that particular region. Here's[2] a map of the Northwestern US from 1960. It includes part of the Dakotas and Nebraska.

I don't expect my edits to last because this article is very problematic. It should be renamed American Pacific Northwest if outside the US the term "Pacific Northwest" also refers to Southwestern Canada. The Northwestern United States is not a clearly defined region in the way that the Midwest and New England are. States that are South and East of Idaho are more appropriately categorized as Mountain States. --AntigrandiosË^Talk 22:24, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

How do you quantify the statement "most Americans define the Pacific Northwest as"? What sources are we using, and how are you defining American? North American would include Canadian views on their side, and US citizens, close and far, have subjective and relative limiters.. All of the US state of California is Pacific Northwest, to say, the Mexican State of Oaxaca, also technically part of the Americas... Taceo (talk) 22:46, 4 March 2015 (UTC)