The “Far West” (terrible name) seems to be just a lazy grouping of most of the area west of the Mississippi. Definitely has a very costal biased view of the world.

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Lammy 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Really weird to not list Deseret as its own thing honestly (all of Utah, Colorado west of the Divide, Idaho up to Rexburg, most of Nevada that isn't Tahoe/Reno/Vegas)

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madcaptenor 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I've seen this called the "Mormon corridor" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_corridor) but Deseret is a catchier name. Sometimes that includes Vegas, though - Vegas is historically Mormon.

	▲	Lammy 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		GOOD point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Las_Vegas_Mormon_Fort_Stat...
	▲	AnimalMuppet 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, but now it's hard to find anywhere less culturally Mormon than Vegas.

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Apocryphon 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same as it ever was. The "Empty Quarter"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_Amer...

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bitwize 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm reminded of the children's book Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport, the first half of which is some kid's stereotypes of what life is like "Out West" (including the title). Then his family completes the move "Out West", and finds that things are quite a bit different from how he expects.

Marrying a woman from Louisiana has been similarly instructive to me as regards "the South".