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  1. The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the U.S. Census Bureau until 1984.

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    The land in the Midwest is generally thought of as consisting of rolling hills with some mountainous and flat regions like the Great Plains states. The far northern part of the Upper Mississippi valley is known as the Driftless Area, a region of very rugged hills centered primarily western Wisconsin, though the region includes small parts of northe...

    Midwesterners are sometimes viewed as open, friendly, and straightforward, or sometimes stereotyped as stubborn and uncultured. People view the Midwest as a very open place with lots of corn and wheat, very dry crops and sometimes simple people. Midwest values were shaped by religious beliefs and the agricultural values from the people who settled ...

    The accents of the Midwest are often clearly different from the accents of the South and many urban areas of the American Northeast. The accent of most of the Midwest is thought by many to be "standard" American English. Many national radio and television shows in the U.S. like this accent more than many other accents. This may have started because...

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    1. Buley, R. Carlyle. The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period 1815-18402 vol (1951), Pulitzer Prize 2. Cayton, Andrew R. L. Midwest and the Nation(1990) 3. Cayton, Andrew R. L. and Susan E. Gray, Eds. The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History.(2001) 4. Frederick; John T. ed. Out of the Midwest: A Collection of Present-Day Writing(1944) literary excerpts 5. Garland, John H. The North American Midwest: A Regional Geography(1955) 6. Jensen, Richard. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Politi...

    Midwestern United States Holidays Archived 2008-10-15 at the Wayback Machine- Travel guide
    Gangs in the Midwestern United States Archived 2009-03-18 at the Wayback Machine4
  2. A Região Centro-Oeste dos Estados Unidos da América ( Midwestern region of the United States of America ou Midwest ), também chamada Meio-oeste, é uma das quatro regiões geográficas reconhecidas pelo Departamento do Censo dos Estados Unidos.

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  3. The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central states of the United States of America, specifically Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

  4. Há 3 dias · Midwest, region, northern and central United States, lying midway between the Appalachian and Rocky mountains and north of the Ohio River and the 37th parallel. It comprises the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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  5. 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 .

  6. 20 de mar. de 2024 · The Midwest is a region of the United States of America known as "America's Heartland", which refers to its primary role in the nation's manufacturing and farming sectors as well as its patchwork of big commercial cities and small towns that, in combination, are considered as the broadest representation of American culture.