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Pages in category "Culture of the Midwestern United States" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
North-Central American English is an American English dialect, or dialect in formation, native to the Upper Midwestern United States, an area that somewhat overlaps with speakers of the separate Inland Northern dialect situated more in the eastern Great Lakes region. [1]
The Midwestern United States is a politically divided region, with the Democratic Party being stronger in the Great Lakes Region and the Republican Party being stronger in the Great Plains regions. The Upper Midwestern states of Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin reliably voted Democratic in every presidential election from 1992 to 2012.
Letters and Notes on the Customs and Manners of the North American Indians is a two-volume travel narrative by George Catlin, an American painter, author, and traveler.The book, published in 1842 in London, was written during eight years of travel from 1832 to 1839 and contains many of Catlin’s illustrations.
The culture of Minnesota is a subculture of the United States with influences from Scandinavian Americans, Finnish Americans, Irish Americans, German Americans, Native Americans, Czechoslovak Americans, among numerous other immigrant groups. They work in the context of the cold agricultural and mining state.
The cross of culture : a social analysis of midwestern politics, 1850-1900 (1970) online; Nye, Russel B. Midwestern Progressive Politics (1959) Scheiber, Harry N. ed. The Old Northwest; studies in regional history, 1787-1910 (1969) 16 essays by scholars on economic and social topics; Thornbrough, Emma Lou.
The tradition of social progressivism in Minnesota politics has been linked to the Minnesota Nice culture. [7] Tim Walz , Governor of Minnesota and the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 2024 United States presidential election , has been described this way, [ 8 ] along with other Minnesotan politicians such as Hubert Humphrey , Walter ...
The Copena culture was a Hopewellian culture in northern Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, as well as in other sections of the surrounding region including Kentucky. Researchers developed the Copena name based on the first three letters of copper and the last three letters of the mineral galena , as copper and galena artifacts have often ...