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→Cultural influence: The rising NFL quarterback star Joe Burrow was born in Iowa.
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→Cultural influence: Marilyn Monroe's mother was from a poor family in the Midwest.
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→New History of the Midwest: This new book is a welcome antidote to the distortions by Critical Race Theory that has infested the College Board Advanced Placement American history exam.
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→New History of the Midwest: praised
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Jon K. Lauck’s ''The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800–1900'', is given a favorable review in the ''National Review''
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The Midwest generally has plentiful water, but even slight droughts can harm its agriculture. In 2022, the severe drought in the West has an impact on some regions of the Midwest, mostly Missouri and western Iowa.
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The Republican National Convention is often located in the Midwest
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Midwestern Democrats are more likely to stand against the pro-abortion position of the national Democrat Party. For example, in 2022 enough members of the DFL in the Minnesota House were pro-life to thwart attempts there by other DFL
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Roughly two-thirds of the Amish live in the Midwest, due to its affordable farmland and conservative values.
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Star athletes from the Midwest are too numerous to list, but include Gale Sayers (football, from Kansas), Roger Staubach (football, Ohio), Larry Bird (basketball, Indiania), and Jimmy Connors (tennis, from southern Illinois).
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Star athletes from the Midwest are too numerous to list, but include Gale Sayers (football, from Kansas) and Jimmy Connors (tennis, from southern Illinois).
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The Midwest is the breadbasket of the country, not merely in food but also in innovation. The Midwest is the birthplace of the skyscraper and many other innovations that subsequently caught on nationwide
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thus Germanic influence is strong within several Midwestern states such as Wisconsin
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As a political unit, the conservative states of Arkansas, Kentucky, and even West Virginia could be included.
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The Midwest is the birthplace of the skyscraper and many other innovations that subsequently caught on nationwide.
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Midwestern manufacturers the Phillips Manufacturing & Tower Company and the packaging firm Sixarp are two companies that filed a lawsuit, with the help of The Buckeye Institute, to challenge the Biden vaccine mandate in November 2021.
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The Iowa caucuses have asserted political preeminence for the Midwest in selecting the presidential nominees for each party, supplanting the historic role by New Hampshire in that important process.
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The South tends to rely more on faith and the northeast more on liberal logic.
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mand Florence Henderson ("Carol Brady")
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Orson Welles (considered the most brilliant actor/director)
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→Cultural influence: More recently, comedians Melissa McCarthy and Cecily Strong are both from Illinois.
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