Quote by William H. Gass
““This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we overlabor; our outlook never really urban, never rural either, we enlarge and linger at the same time, as Alice both changed and remained in her story.””
![“Towns [in the Midwest] with immigrants are growing. Towns without immigrants are shrinking. It's as simple as that.” quote by Richard C. Longworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fd3/richard-c-longworth-105920_immigration_towns-in-the-midwest-with-immigrants-are_3057339.jpg)
![“So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run to our bedrooms and read in a fever, and love the big hardwood trees outside the windows, and the terrible Midwest summers, and the terrible Midwest winters [...]. And…” quote by Annie Dillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/49b/annie-dillard-509_and-love_so-the-midwest-nourishes-us-and-presents_833434.jpg)
![“...the Midwest is coping with a twenty-first-century problem [globalization] with a nineteenth-century political and social structure [relying on state and city solutions rather than regional solutions].” quote by Richard C. Longworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e24/richard-c-longworth-105920_social-structure_the-midwest-is-coping-with-a-twenty-firs_2516856.jpg)
