pittsburgh: I know this topic has been beaten to death with a stick, but I'm lookin' for a personal answer. Not trade partners, not location/proximity, but CULTURALLY, why do you define Pittsburgh as you do?|||Pittsburgh is Midwestern because they eat a lot of cheese and they're in the AFC and they say "don't cha know" and they they're not stylish and how many metrosexuals are there in Pittsburgh and for that matter, Philadelphia should be in the midwest culturally altho they're in the NFC.|||They're midwestern because it is historically a blue collar city built on the steel industry. Northeastern cities were based more on finance. The first time that I visited Pittsburgh to visit a college friend, I was the big city freak from back east. But the things that you wish to ignore are as important. Pittsburgh is 300 miles from Philadelphia, separated by the Appalachian Mountains. Since water was the important way of getting around prior to 1900, it was more closely related to Ohio than Eastern Pennsylvania.