The midwest may have bigger bucks but..
we seem to have alot more deer in the east. I just got home from a trip to Springfield, MO which was a 13 hour drive. From Pittsburgh to Columbus I saw deer the whole way, then from Columbus Ohio to Springfield Missouri I only saw four deer. They were all together in an Illinois cornfield. I was looking pretty hard.
On the way back, not a single deer until the eastern side of Ohio and I'll bet I saw 50-70 from there to home. Beautiful country out west but the deer numbers really seem to be down.