There is a Mountain West Conference in NCAA Division 1 FBS.
Includes Hawaii. I guess the islands themselves qualify since they are volcanoes rising from the sea floor, more or less.
I still miss the old Southwest Conf
Funny how I tend to align areas not just by geography, but also by Football and Basketball
Have you ever looked at an actual map of New England? If CT is “northeast”, what is RI (perhaps a smudge more north than CT, but completely to the east of it)? If you wouldn’t call CT “New England” you would simply be wrong, because it is.
We sometimes subdivide NE into southern and northern, but it’s all New England and nothing outside of it is included.
Central by the definition given, Southern by reality; specifically, Gulf Coast.
Midwest (Wisconsin).
Yeah, that’s a truly poor choice of map for this sort of poll; the regions obviously were selected for administrative ease rather than any sort of common identity. If it were from a website that’s actually about education, I’d be surprised, but it’s about picking colleges, and I’d no more expect such a site to have culturally valid regions than I’d expect a social worker to teach geography.
It’s sort of impossible to identify regions by state anyway, as most states have parts that are more like their neighbors than they are like the rest of the state, and some have unique regions that aren’t like anyplace else. Here’s a pretty good map that takes this into account: though some compromises have been made to keep the number of regions down (to 14!), it recognizes the cultural and physical divisions within most states.
SouthWest Wisconsin.
Just 25 minutes from Mississippi (near Iowa and Minnesota border)
So Midwest…
But I prefer to think of it as the Central Coast !!
Most people call the region “New England”.
Damn straight 
The Northeast and New England aren’t the precisely same thing, though. As far as I’ve ever been able to tell, northeast = New England + mid-Atlantic.
Pretty good splits.
No points of confusion here. The exploding state of South Carolina is going to be southeast no matter who puts it together.
Elf: that’s how I’d define “northeast”.
Well, obviously I mean people from away.
