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The west part of the United States is truly considered diverse, considering climate and geographical features. As for the former, the types are various: semiarid, mediterranean and desert. This region is a land of scenic beauty with different nature forms, standing out are Rocky Mountains, Mohave Desert and Pacific Ocean. It is probably the reason why the personality of people there also is clearly not similar. Its heterogeneousness makes its social structure complicated and social order maintained (). There are survey claimed that people here are relaxed and creative, though there exist others which say tolerance is dominantly the trait of people in the west.
Bordered with the aforementioned regions and Canada is Midwest. This area includes

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