Social structure Quote by Richard C. Longworth

“As a rule, almost all of them are Midwesterners...This area of the country, what are we to say of this area of the country,…

— David Foster Wallace

“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.”

— Richard C. Longworth

“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we…

— William H. Gass

The Midwest has, I think, incredibly hardworking people. You know they're going to be successful because, quite honestly, I cannot work with people from…

— Dan Gilbert

“Hey. Please. This is not the Midwest. All right? Michigan is the Midwest, God knows why. This is the Plains: a state of mind,…

— Tracy Letts

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

— Edward Hirsch

“These urban provinces, new to the American scene, possess greater economic, social, and cultural unity than most of the states. Yet, subdivided into separate…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr

“So that Chicago, with shipping and steel and livestock, came to think of itself as a burly city, tough and muscular, with rough-and-tumble football…

— Brian Doyle

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities…

— Sadiq Khan

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up…

— Jason Reitman

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

— Jim Gaffigan

“Today, Chicago, like London, sucks in the best talent from its interior in the Midwest, where the swing to Trump was strongest. In the…

— Edward Luce