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The northern states
The U.S. Northern states do not, confusingly, contain all of the states in the northern half of the country. Instead, for historical reasons (mainly involving the American Civil War), the Northern states are only those which lie in
the northern half of the country east of the Mississippi
River. Those states in the northern portion of the West
are specifically referred to as the Pacific Northwest, those
states which lie in the northern reaches of the middle of the country, beyond the Upper Midwest, are Plains or Intermountain states.
The states of the North are, from east to west: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. (Iowa is iffy.)
See also: U.S. Southern states, New England, U.S.
Northeast, List of regions
of the United States.
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