Map America by at least part of its European heritage (German Americans are the nation’s largest ethnic group, at about 46 million), and you get a patchy Midwest that looks more like this ...

This map shows the percentage of respondents ... some of the most iconic representations of Black American life come from the Midwest, Howard said. She pointed to Motown, authors like Toni ...

Maps of the largest ancestry and racial ... 49,840,035 Germans live mostly in the Midwest. From "Ancestry & Ethnicity in America" based on the American Community Survey (2006–2010 Five Year ...

The Rust Belt refers to the region that was once the hub of America's industrial sector ... Illinois and eastern Wisconsin. As the maps show, the Midwest enjoyed a boom in the 1950s and 1960s ...

But the American Midwest is chock full of them. Thanks to John Metcalfe at CityLab for spotting this strangely fascinating map. McCann created it by extracting road data from OpenStreetMap and ...

This buckskin map depicts a vast area of the American Midwest between the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. It was probably drawn by Piankshaw Indians and the red circles and semi-circles represent ...

The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900, Jon Lauck, University of Oklahoma Press, 366 pages. Of all America’s regions, the Midwest captures the American imagination the least.