Quite depressing.

Bad weather, losing sports teams and neglected cities make up the majority of the midwestern United States.

The weather in the Midwest is extraordinarily inconvenient. Summers can get dangerously hot, and winters can be dangerously cold. The great inconvenience in the weather of the Midwest comes with the inconsistency in temperature. This is certainly evident during autumn as it may snow on a Monday, and people are wearing shorts by that Friday. While hurricanes and haboobs are not of concern to Midwesterners, blizzards and tornadoes most definitely are.

Professional sports are a way of escape for many people. Watching the best athletes on display that are representing your city and your people can provide a sense of pride for sports fans. In the Midwest, pride is, more often than not, the opposite of what we feel as sports fans. Consistent winning is a rare luxury for Midwestern teams like the Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears and St. Louis Cardinals. The Chicago Cubs, Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns are just a few of the many historically terrible professional sports teams that reside in the Midwest.

Many of the cities in the Midwest have seen better days. With populations peaking in the mid-20th century for cities like Chicago, Milwaukee and Flint, urban areas feel like they have been on the decline in the Midwest. Loss of working-class jobs is one of the main contributors to this result. While the spirits of many of these Midwestern cities may have been lost to time, they have remained within the people of the Midwest.

The people of the Midwest are the lone bright spot in the otherwise gloomy part of the country. Whether they are from the city or from a rural area, the people of the Midwest are a hard-working and prideful group that doesn’t ask for much. The blue-collar backbone of the country, Midwesterners have gone through plenty, and as depressing as the region may be, the people are what give life to the Midwest.