John Gregory Dunne

Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping midwestern Methodist windbag who neither played baseball on Sundays when he was a mediocre catcher for the St. Louis Browns and the New York Highlanders, nor attended games on the Sabbath as a baseball executive.

American Novelist

Richard M. DeVos

I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.

American Businessman

Gena Lee Nolin

Midwestern people stick together. Gee willikers, they work hard. There's no glitz, no glamour. When I was a girl in Duluth, Minnesota, I used to get up early and milk cows, so I know what hard work is.

American Actress

Midwestern refers to cultural and geographic aspects from the central part of the U.S.

Geographic origin

The term can imply values, like friendliness, associated with the Midwest.

Not just location

Be cautious; 'midwestern' can sometimes stereotype people from this region.

Stereotypes

 ya and out there she met dad and dad took this picture and came back and built a life these are my parents with me when I was really little and this is how I grew up I grew up classic Midwestern good people hard work not you

A Camera, Two Kids and a...

 what do I know that would cause me a reticent Midwestern scientist to get myself