THE MIDWEST

In the Midwest there are 12 states.  Ohio, which borders lake Erie.  Indiana,
which is west of Ohio.  Michigan, which connects with lake Michigan and lake
Huron. The states that border Canada are North Dakota and Minnesota.
 South and North Dakota borders.  East of Minnesota is Wisconsin.  South of
Wisconsin is Illinois.  South of South Dakota is Nebraska.  Kansas is south of
Nebraska. Connectingeast of Kansas is Missouri. Last but not least north of
Missouri is Iowa.

States 12
Population 67,676,480
Time Zone CST; MST; EST
Household 26,334,492

Historical background
The Northwest Territory entered the United States in 1783 at
the conclusion of the American Revolution and was organized
under a series of ordinances that set the precedent for the
admission of future territories into the Union. The Great Plains
entered the United States in 1803 as part of the Louisiana
Purchase.The Plains were to develop primarily agriculturally,
but the Northwest Territory, blessed with both fertile soil and
valuable natural resources (coal, oil, iron ore, and limestone),
would develop both industrially and agriculturally.
Emerging transportation arteries, first canals and then railroads,
linked the Midwest with Eastern markets and firmly established it as
part of the industrially expanding North, thus concluding a process begun
in 1787 when slaverywas outlawed in the Northwest Territory. The region
was not without it Southern sympathizers, however, as a number of its
settlers, particularly in the Ohio River valley, had migrated from the South;
but he Midwest was to give to the brewing sectional crisis not only a new
political party (the Republicans) that was devoted to the nonextension of
slavery but also two of the Union’s staunchest defenders: Abraham Lincoln
and Stephen A. Douglas.

After the American Civil War,

the growth experienced by the Midwest was dramatic. Transportation, Unique in American life, the Midwest has fused the
raw and expansive muscle of an urban industrial
immigration, and industrialization all played a part. By 1890 Chicago, not even 60 years old, had become the second largest city in the country,
establishment with the sturdy conservatism of a
and the Midwest accounted for 29 percent of the country’s manufacturing employment and nearly one-third of its value added by manufacture.
rural hinterland. But like its neighbours to the
The Great Plains, however, developed more slowly. Westward migration tended to skip the Plains for the West Coast, and it was not until the late
northeast, the Midwest’s growth rate has lagged
1800s, when most American Indians had been subjugated, barbed-wire fencing had been introduced, and railroads had penetrated the interior,
behind that of the country as a whole.Despite
that the Plains experienced rapid settlement by farmers, ranchers, and tradesmen.The influence of the Midwest on national life has been
regional economic shifts adverse to the Midwest,
significant. In the 1870s, it was the main area of activity of the Granger movement and a hotbed of labour agitation. It provided some of the most the region has continued to be the most important
prominent figures of the Progressive movement and was home for many of America’s most famous industrial giants. It was an innovator in economic region in the country,
architecture and retailing, a potent force in the settlement-house movement, a centre of temperance activity, and an inspiration to a new school leading all other sections in value added by
of naturalistic writers. manufacture and in total value of farm marketings.

Politic Conservative Heartland

The Midwest historically has been the heritage of eleven GOP
Presidents – Abraham Lincoln from Illinois; Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford
B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, William Howard Taft,
Warren G. Harding from Ohio; Benjamin Harrison from Indiana; Herbert
Hoover from Iowa; Dwight D. Eisenhower from Kansas; and Gerald Ford from
Michigan. Also, two Republican Presidential nominees were from Kansas,
along with Eisenhower—Alf Landon in 1936 and Bob Dole in 1996.At
the same time, Midwestern Democrats who were President include Harry
Truman of Missouri and Barack Obama of Illinois, and others who were
Presidential nominees include James Cox of Ohio in 1920; Adlai Stevenson
II of Illinois in 1952 and 1956; Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota in 1968;
George McGovern of South Dakota in 1972; and Walter Mondale of Minnesota
in 1984. We have also seen many Vice Presidents from the Midwest, including six
from Indiana, two from Illinois, two from Minnesota, and one each from
Employment by Sex and Age:
Kansas, Iowa, Missouri and Michigan.

Considering how small margins in several Midwest states determined the

election results in 2016, for any political observer to underrate the
importance of the Midwest, particularly based on the history of that
section’s impact, would be folly. So despite all of the attention that
will be given to Atlantic Coast and Pacific Coast Presidential
contenders, and the role of governors and senators from those sections,
one can expect the Midwest to play a significant role in American
politics into the long term future.

The importance of the Midwest in the Presidential Election of 2020, and

in elections of Midwestern governors and state legislatures in the
Midterm Elections of 2018 is self-evident. It is well known that if
Hillary Clinton had won the electoral votes of Ohio (18), Michigan (16),
and Wisconsin (10), a total of 44 more electoral votes, she would have
won the election with 271 electoral votes. (Joe Biden might have won
Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin in 2016.)

Industry:

Race and Ethnicity:

CULTURE