middle west

Noun

Meaning

the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America)

Source: WordNet

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Examples

I think that to those of us who have watched the development of the Middle West and the Far West nothing is more remarkable, nothing pays a higher tribute to the finest qualities of our race, than the way in which law and order are maintained from coast to coast. Stanley Baldwin

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West. James Norman Hall

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans. Charlie Chaplin

In 1818, the U.S government obtained a treaty with several tribes known in the history of the Middle West as the “Delaware New Purchase.” Source: Internet

Schumpeter (1949) in one of his examples used "the railroadization of the Middle West as it was initiated by the Illinois Central". Source: Internet

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