Middle Western

adjective

1. another name for Midwestern

Example Sentences

In his final report to the chief of the Motor Transport Corps, Eisenhower reflected that “extended trips by trucks through the middle western part of the United States are impracticable until the roads are improved.”

From Washington Post

Her story is already part of American legend — Middle Western madcap goes east, dances with Martha Graham, returns to Grand Rapids, coordinates fashions for a department store, leads conga lines, marries a diabetic salesman, divorces him after five years.

From New York Times

Harry S. Truman was different again, and yet in his own way he represented the country, in its Middle Western, small-business, common-sensical strain.

From Wall Street Journal

In the article, headlined “Middle Western Woman a Better Person Than She’s Painted, Says Dagmar Leggett,” Carlson called out writers such as Sinclair Lewis for being critical of women.

From Washington Post

How to make something quintessentially American, Graham mused, without evoking “a mural in a Middle Western railway station”? How to convey “gentleness without sentimentality” and “the simplicities of a telescoped day,” from morning to nightfall?

From New York Times

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What does Middle Western mean?

Middle Western is an adjective used to describe the region known as the Middle West—the northern central area of the mainland United States.

The region is much more commonly called the Midwest, and the adjective Midwestern is much more commonly used to describe it. The word Midwestern is commonly used to describe the region and states in that region, but it can also describe the people who live there or things about them, as in Midwestern values. The term Middle Western can be used in all these ways.

Generally, the boundaries of the Middle Western region are Canada to the north, the Rocky Mountains to the west, the southern borders of Missouri and Kansas to the south, and the Allegheny Mountains to the east. Sometimes the Midwest is thought of as extending to the eastern border of Illinois or Ohio.

The Midwest is one of the United States’ four official regions as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. Because the Census Bureau doesn’t divide states when defining regions, it sets Ohio as its eastern border. According to the Census, 12 states are located within the Midwest: Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.

Americans themselves often differ in terms of which states they consider to be part of the Midwest. Sometimes, states on the fringes, such as Ohio or North Dakota, aren’t considered to be a part of the Midwest.

A person from the Midwest can be called a Midwesterner, or, less commonly, a Middle Westerner.

Example: I would love to travel to the central United States to see the beautiful scenery of the Middle Western states.

Where does Middle Western come from?

The first records of the term Middle Western describing the northern central area of the United States come from the 1800s. Although the Middle Western states are really in the northern central area of the country, the word western indicates their position in relation to the East Coast (the location of the original 13 U.S. colonies).

The term Midwestern and Middle Western are used in American media that focuses on geographic areas or that analyzes demographics. Especially during an election season, political analysts speculate and observe how the people in these states are going to vote. The Middle Western region is especially known for having rich farmland. Many parts of the Midwest are rural, but it also has many urban and suburban areas.

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What are some other forms related to Middle Western?

• Middle Westerner (noun)
• Middle West (noun)

What are some synonyms for Middle Western?

• Midwestern
• Midwest (when Midwest is used as an adjective)

What are some words that share a root or word element with Middle Western? 

 

• middle
• west
• Westerner

What are some words that often get used in discussing Middle Western?

 

• region
• state
• value
• United States
• rural
• farmland
• heartland
• breadbasket

How is Middle Western used in real life?

Middle Western is much less commonly used than Midwestern, the word Americans use to describe the north-central region of the country and the states located there.

Welles said very little about Kenosha over the course of his life, referring to it once as a “nasty little Middle Western city”. https://t.co/zcGdzAtaQ2

— robertklemko (@RobertKlemko) September 1, 2020

It's disconcerting to hear, a couple of days straight now, that "the farm belt" or "Middle Western" states (presumably including Kansas and Missouri, among others) could come back online sooner from the coronavirus shutdown because we supposedly don't have a problem here.

— Jeff Rosen (@jeff_rosen88) March 26, 2020

I am making one of the “salads” from my Middle western childhood. Anyone recognize this “recipe?” pic.twitter.com/6IZl7N3Hhn

— Miranda Summers Lowe (@Msummerslowe) August 11, 2019

 

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True or False?

The Middle Western region stretches from the border of Canada to the north to the border of Mexico to the south.