Breadbasket, colloquially

Usage examples of midwest.

After bouncing around the Midwest he had settled in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he worked doing brake jobs for Pep Boys.

Midwest, unless we assume the bees came in through the St Lawrence Seaway.

Today, the color of the hand that pushes the sponge varies from region to region: Chicanas in the Southwest, Caribbeans in New York, native Hawaiians in Hawaii, native whites, many of recent rural extraction, in the Midwest and, of course, Maine.

The Outlaws also control methamphetamine laboratories in Georgia and, along with other outlaw motorcycle gangs, plan to supply the US eastern seaboard and midwest with marijuana from Hawaii.

Both Turkey and Israel will, in due time, be forced to accept - however reluctantly - that they are barely mid-sized, mostly Asiatic, regional powers and that their future - geopolitical and military, if not economic - lies in the Middle East, not in the Midwest.

But the fact that my share of the vote was considerably lower than my job rating, my personal approval rating, the percentage of people who said they felt comfortable with my presidency, was a sober reminder of the power of cultural issues like guns, gays, and abortion, especially among white married couples in the South, the intermountain West, and the rural Midwest, and among white men all across the country.

Out of this terror arose a new alliance between the White South and the Midwest along lines similar to the original Jacksonian alliance which for more than a century formed the foundation of the Democratic Party.

In her brief stay in the northern Midwest, she had found most Minnesotans to be efficient and kind.

Unlike its predecessor of the 1870s in the South, this short-lived but widespread movement was based chiefly in the Midwest and was devoted above all to anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and antimodernist sentiment, with Negrophobia present but of lesser importance.

Though he is qualified for positions that become available in the local government, the political turmoil that spreads through the Midwest requires great skill at intrigue and political connections, and Grant has neither.

She first became a victim of success when she successfully annihilated her twin brother by getting into Radcliffe while he went off to some beer-swilling football factory in the Midwest, a trombonist in the marching band.

Agent Cavalierre did know a great deal about bank robberies, including several committed in the Midwest that resembled the Citibank and First Union jobs.

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, which had won a difficult strike in the Ohio tomato fields in 1979, the largest agricultural strike ever in the Midwest, brought thousands of farmworkers together in several Midwest states.

Beckwurt, a jam-auction concessionaire who traveled with a big outfit that spent the season mostly in the Midwest.

I sensed that clannish, secretive mind-set of a lifelong carny, so I talked for a bit about the gillies and ragbags I'd worked in the Midwest, all the way through Ohio, while he continued to tinker with the generator and remained mute.