At least 300 students have been prohibited from registering for classes at Northwestern University because they refused to watch a controversial antisemitism training video that they said was biased in favor of Israel, contained factual inaccuracies and could inflame campus tension over Gaza.
I guess the term “Midwest” was well established by then. Maybe anything further West was called “The Territories” or something?
The naming of the university was very likely just following accepted naming conventions.
If anything this shows the expansionist nature of the US. And an unwillingness to overhaul conventions (and there’s a lot to unpack there).
The United States is the inheritor of all of Rome’s evils. They are the same culture, the same empire.