I suspect you can grasp a big important chunk of my personality, and maybe what's specifically Midwestern about it, if I tell you one fact:

Both the expressions "Yeah, no" and "No, yeah" make *perfect* sense to me.

@zebratron2084 What's specifically midwestern about them, if I can ask? They make perfect sense to me and I've never lived anywhere but the coasts.

@Soreth I have no idea. :D I have just vaguely heard they are regional and I believe I've heard them associated with Midwest/Great Lakes?

Now you've got me questioning my memory, time for a quick infodive. :>

@Soreth Yeah, no, it is a trope! :D But I do feel ya -- I have a few oddities in my/my family's vocabulary that do NOT match the regional maps or stereotypes at all... (Like why did I already feel so comfortable with "y'all" long before I headed south?)

https://twitter.com/midwestern_ope/status/1119243533154648066?lang=en