18 Signs You Might Be From The Midwest 

When you turn your garage as second living room from March to November, Claiming Dibs for a parking spot, you have second refrigerator full of pop, beer, in your garage

In Minnesota we use lakes all year long and if you live more than 5 minutes from a lake, it’s weird.

The infamous "Ope let me sneak right past ya"

I 90 is also always under construction especially between Rockford and Chicago.

If you don’t like the present weather, wait 5 minutes. 😏. A dj on a Chicago radio station used to say that.

My two cousins from Maryland came to visit me in Iowa. They looked at me crazy when, I started dipping my pizza in ranch dressing

Soda comes from Arm and Hammer and comes in a box.

NW Ohio Farm girl here!! So accurate!! Being behind tractors never bothers me!

I thought all this was normal. I'm in NW IL, and we call it pop. While in the navy, I was told I was calling it the wrong thing.

There is a lot of deer in Riverside, but they aren't usually in traffic.

im from indiana and the deer keep prancing around like they own the place right until you yell at them you are going to eat them then they tend to run away

Loved your comment on farm equipment on the highway. My grandfather was hauling a manure spreader on route 6 and a car was trying to get around him and honking his horn. Some bozo from the Quad Cities most likely. After being harassed by this car, he finally stopped and turned on the PTO shaft and gave the annoying car behind him a "shower" of sorts. Was this just a grandpa story? Maybe, but it makes me laugh just thinking about it.

In Carroll county there is a Shadfly Festival in August.

Great video! Loved the one that it takes FOREVER to say goodbye. Yes, the state and county fairs (and festivals) are a big deal. Brings to mind the Bean festival in Wayne City. And the Popcorn festival in Ridgeway. And tractors on the highway, yes.

The deer kamakaze is real

My dad grew up on a farm in Quincy, IL and he was in the 4H club

I'm from Florida but currently live here in Indiana, though most of the family I know of either lives in or is from the Midwest, often times both, my mom is included in this statistic as she's from Chicagoland. Admittedly it took me until I watched Midwestern related videos to learn that most people don't measure in time since I always did that. I mean, my dad was from New England and even he did this. It also took me until I saw a bag of puppy chow, I'm sorry, Muddy Buddies, in stores that I actually learned their real name. I still call soda soda though, and as far as I'm aware, my mom always did the same despite being from Northeastern Illinois, I've also never heard suckers outside of that one iCarly episode, no I don't remember the exact one though. I do know the scene had Spencer and some delivery man with a big lollipop and attempts to fight him with it.

Guilty. We also grew up not locking our doors but that was probably more of a small town thing.

Winter and Construction isn't the most accurate. It's Construction and slightly less construction while it's cold and annoying lol

You nailed quite a lot of them, ya. I do think Midwesterners also eat a ton of cheese. As a native Minnesotan I am supposedly required by law to hate Wisconsin but I don't, unless they are playing the Vikings. I do absolutely adore cheese curds especially Wisconsin ones (served with a nice beer brat of course) and am shocked that you often cannot find them outside of this region. I also drink milk with most meals, that's probably a Midwest thing too. When I want my curds, thank goodness for Culver's!

Midwestern deer work for insurance companies, only programmed for newer vehicles….goood luck tho.

Excellent as always!

I measure distance by miles. I am from Illinois and was born here.

I have lollipops. I don’t think I have ever heard lollipops referred to as suckers. Except for the toffee candy on a stick that it seems to take you all day to fully consume (all day suckers)

50 degrees in spring is tee shirt weather

I was born and raised in Will County, and I never heard of padiddle until I watched the movie "Black Dog ",so I thought it was an Eastern game

I will say there are some states i consiter calling part of the eastern midwest.. ky (i know there the south)

Sody- not soda, not pop. Tractors, so true! Deer like to commit suicide. 4-H and county fairs. You left out Burgoo!!!! Small Town parades with horses floats and tractors along with a high school marching band. Good video ☺️

Minnesota and Pennsylvania are brother and sister

I've always understood a sucker to be the flat candy on a stick and a lollipop was a ball shaped one with chocolate inside. Maybe that's a Chicago thing? (Full disclosure: I've lived half my life on the West Coast, too.)

Where I'm at it's known as a cheese toastie not grilled cheese

Im in southern Illinois. Im not a fan of swimming in lakes, I'd rather fish, it's soda, not pop for me, and this morning, it was 31, and the high is 67. I played padiddle and slug bug in high school, high school football and basketball are more than just sports, they're lifestyles. Last school year, we hosted an exchange student from Italy. They play a game over there that if they see a yellow car while in a car, they say "Yellow car!", then hit the person nearest to them.

Fall is football

#19??? Attending Steam and Threshing shows.

I call it pop my husband calls it sody pop. suckers, long goodbyes, lots of festivals and 4-H. How long it takes to get some place is far more important then how far it is. If your are going to someones house you don't tell them how far it is, just when you will arrive. I'm showing my age but in the late 70s everyone wore blue jeans and swede/leather shoes instead of sneakers (same may call them tennis shoes). Something I wonder about is if you ever made potato soup with dumplings, potatoes, onions, condensed milk and very watery, not thick? That seems to be a very mid west recipe.

Midwest represent. It's soda in Springfield. Lakes and minutes are right. I made weed infused puppy chow 1 year. Tractors drive past my house. It was the same weather here, bc were close. 50 is correct Goodbye is loooooong Illini 4 lyfe Our state fair sucks I was in ffa, bc my welding teacher required it Deer can fuck off 😤

I would rather swim in a lake, not the ocean, sharks live in the ocean