In school we were taught New England, Midwest, South and North and it is only the GSDCA that is using west and east deciding on shows. :-) St Louis, MO they always referred to it as the Gateway to the West and built the Arch as the symbol to represent it. Regardless of where the GSDCA Nationals are held there will always be someone dissatisfied. “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.” ― John Lydgate Theresa scenecrest.geo@xxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------- Ken Tank <tanksr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: "The West region, western U.S., mostly west of the Great Plains and including, by federal government definition, Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming." - Encyclopedia Britannica But the spirit of this is to best serve the members, so I think we need to look further (after we give geography lessons ;-)) and look at where the membership in the west resides. Then try to pick a good spot somewhere in the middle that is near (no more than 1 hr dirve) a major airport. Ken On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Theresa-GSD Stolz <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I would think any state west of the marker is west and anything east of it is east. http://clui.org/ludb/site/geographic-center-50-united-states-america Theresa scenecrest.geo@xxxxxxxxx ===========================================================================POST is Copyrighted 2015. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of both the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. POSTS CANNOT BE USED IN A COURT OF LAW. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION: http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ==========================================================================