Mike Stone/Reuters Midwesterners won't like if you get these things wrong.
- Midwesterners are sick of people thinking their region is just corn and white people.
- Nearly two dozen shared with Business Insider what they think "coasties" get wrong about the Midwest.
- The most popular complaints: Don't think all Midwesterners are farmers. And don't call it "flyover country."
Just as coastal folks might call the Midwest "flyover country," Wisconsin native Wolfman said Midwesterners have their own slang to poke fun at those outside their region: "coasties."
"A lot of 'coasties' think that there isn't much out in the Plainstates, Heartland and Rustbelt," Wolfman, who witheld his last name, told Business Insider.
But Midwesterners say those coasties are dead wrong.
According to the US Census Bureau, the Midwest consists of two regions: East North Central and West North Central. The East North Central includes Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota comprise the West North Central.
Nearly two dozen people from across the Midwest shared with Business Insider what they wish people from outside the region would stop saying or thinking about their home.