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The Midwestern United States (also referred to as the Midwest, the Heartland or the American Midwest) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. [1] It was officially named the North Central Region by the U.S. Census Bureau until 1984. [2]
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 .
More settlers began to arrive in the rural Midwest after the Erie Canal was completed in the 1820s. Rural and urban foodways began to diverge as cash-strapped immigrants became dependent on packaged foods. [10] The expansion of railroads in the 1870s and 1880s allowed fresh citrus fruits to be shipped to the Midwest. [7]
Image credits: midwestvseverybody As Jon K. Lauck, editor of Middle West Review, notes, there are nuances to what is the Midwest."The western parts of the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas are sort of ...
Iowa Sushi (Iowa) Landlocked as it is, Iowa’s namesake Iowa Sushi contains zero fish, rice, or seaweed. That doesn’t mean it isn’t any less delicious.
The term heartland often invokes imagery of rural areas, such as this wheat field in Kansas. Iowa terrain. The heartland, when referring to a cultural region of the United States, is the central land area of the country, [1] usually the Midwestern United States [2] or the states that do not border the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, [3] associated with mainstream or traditional values, such as ...
“We had our language, culture and way of life taken away,” said Memegwesi Sutherland, who went to high school in Hinckley and teaches the Ojibwe language at the Minneapolis American Indian Center.
A street in West Point, Indiana, in October 2010. Middle America is a colloquial term for the United States heartland, especially the culturally suburban areas of the United States, typically the lower Midwestern region of the country, which consists of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and downstate Illinois.