- a variation of Midwestern.
Middle Western
Britishadjective
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Harry S. Truman was different again, and yet in his own way he represented the country, in its Middle Western, small-business, common-sensical strain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2018
How to make something quintessentially American, Graham mused, without evoking “a mural in a Middle Western railway station”? How to convey “gentleness without sentimentality” and “the simplicities of a telescoped day,” from morning to nightfall?
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2014
Jerry Ford went genially off to China like a good Middle Western businessman with part of his family in tow and his bookkeeper along to finish a little budget work in the hotel at night.
From Time Magazine Archive
He asked frank questions of 291 middle-class boys in "a Middle Western city," got apparently frank answers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Speaking generally it is at least a thousand feet higher above sea level than the Middle Western States, thus giving a dry, bracing air, much like portions of Colorado.
From Canada West by Canada. Dept. of the interior
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