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  • We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.

    Country   Real   Thinking  
  • It's tax day and while many Americans are filing their taxes with a groan, taxpayers in the Badger State have reason to cheer. In Wisconsin, we have enacted more than $2 billion in tax cuts, giving our citizens much-needed relief, call us crazy Midwesterners but we think you know how to spend your money better than the government.

    Cheer   Crazy   Cutting  
  • Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners.

    Simple   Oil   Numbers  
    "Is the Keystone XL Pipeline a Good Deal for Americans?" by Sen. Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.
  • I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult to get through. They would prefer to laugh at difficulties, show their mettle through that, and toughen up and have a beer afterward. That's definitely the characteristic I've carried through me, and hope to never lose.

    Beer   Thinking   Self  
    Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
  • The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

    Home   Illinois   Cities  
    "Vince Vaughn in Love". Interview with Gary Dretzka, www.chicagomag.com. June, 2006.
  • I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the country with it. That's what eventually led me to L.A.

    Country   Two   Stuff  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

    "My Chicago: Bill Kurtis On Wrigley, City Violence & Beef". Interview with Erin Chan Ding, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 01, 2011.
  • What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.

    Heart   Sight   Guy  
    Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.140, Vintage
  • I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

  • There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

    Miracle   World   Asia  
  • You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

    Couple   Cities   Islands  
    Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG
  • At my core, I'm a Midwesterner.

    "Everybody Loves Rudd" by Rachael Combe, www.elle.com. August 12, 2011.
  • These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!

    Dream   Land   America  
  • Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

  • Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

    "Stage acting? It's just too hard" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2005.
  • I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

  • Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing this region as a setting is the endless supply of seasonal change images that accompany it; in addition to, the wide variety of settings, urban and rural, to choose from.

    Book   Luxury   People  
  • I didn't realize how much of a Hoosier or a Midwesterner I was until I moved to New York. It's weird - growing up in Indiana, I wanted to get out, and now I completely romanticize Indiana. It just seems like there's a greater focus on family back there, which I suppose is something that kind of stayed with me.

    "Gaffigan laugh again with Northwest Indiana native bounces back from shaky sitcom by hooking up with new 'Ellen' show". "Post-Tribune" Newspaper, June 24, 2001.
  • I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

  • Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

    "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.
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