Are you kidding? Just take the Skyway across the state line and a Maginot line of oil storage tanks dares you to proceed. Gut it out and drive through what looks like the buckle of the rust belt: a scary, Tinkertoy array of refineries, giant exhaust flames, steel mills, smoke and smells.
Move there? Thus it has ever been for Northwest Indiana to the eyes of outsiders. Those of us from the "Calumet Region" as Northwest Indiana is also known, were called "Region Rats" by our downstate brethren.
Never mind what we called them. Many downstate Hoosiers consider their upstate cousins a little too foreign, a little too urban, a little too "Chicago" to mesh with their corn-fed country purity. Hoosiers have joked about ceding Northwest Indiana to Chicago for years. This status as unwanted child calls to mind a Mexican saying, " Pobre Mexico. Tan lejos de Dios, tan cerca de los Estados Unidos. These stores are literally on every corner and you are bound to run into someone you know.
Finally, something to make us feel special! We are still from the state of Indiana that is. Only the south calls it soda. Here in the region we drink pop. In Indiana passed legislation freezing local budget increases to 5 percent per year. Merrillville's budgets quickly fell behind the inflation rate and the town struggled to maintain services.
To compound matters, neighboring Hobart annexed a large portion of unincorporated Ross Township in , which included the profitable Southlake Mall and other retail malls.
At the end of the twentieth century, Merrillville continued to serve as northwest Indiana's commercial hub. Its population stabilized and became more diverse, as African Americans and other minorities began to buy houses and attend schools. Several major road projects have been planned to ease traffic congestion near the malls. Clemens, Jan. A Pictorial History of Merrillville.
Why the fuck would I root for the Colts!? You: 'Where you from? The current usage of the term "The Region" stemmed from uneducated millennials' misunderstanding of the word 'region' Region, meaning the general surrounding area , at some point made the leap from noun to proper noun, when individuals with poor vocabularies assumed "the region" was the name of a specific place being referenced, and not a word used to describe "the general nearby area" around Chicago. Now, the originally misunderstood usage of the term actually does reference Northwest Indiana.
The phrase's popularity has drastically increased in recent years.
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