Jillian quoted Midwest Futures by Phil Christman
The Midwest: Is it middle? Or is it Western? As Phil Christman writes in this …
Horror and science fiction, in particular, have made much of the Midwest, often using it as an image of every day normality that hides a series of evil, doubles, or Stan’s upon a shadow world of nasty impulses.
— Midwest Futures by Phil Christman (Page 88)
Of course he attributes this also to Haddonfield in Halloween, but the original Haddonfield is in south jersey