Perspective: Five myths about the Midwest
By Kristin L. Hoganson Kristin Hoganson is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of"The Heartland: An American History." May 10 at 2:52 PM As Democratic presidential candidates start popping up in Iowa and President Trump holds forth at rallies in Wisconsin, attention is again gravitating toward the heartland because of its pivotal role in our electoral future.
Myth No. 2 Exports are the foundation of the Midwest farm economy. Free-trade organizations representing Midwestern interests, such as Farmers for Free Trade, urge open commerce because it will “expand export opportunities.” Historians, too, have emphasized the export side of the ledger, as seen in “The Roots of the Modern American Empire,” published 50 years ago.
The term “isolationism” took hold in the 20th century as a political slur that distracted attention from specific policy preferences such as noninterventionism and unilateralism. Pinning this overblown term on the rural Midwest made it all the more denigrating, by insinuating that only hayseeds would object to the nation’s expanding projection of power.
Myth No. 4 The rural Midwest is a holdover from a less interconnected era. When attention to globalization went supernova in the aftermath of the Cold War, library shelves filled with studies of internationally connected places, from major cities to coastal areas and borderlands. In the emerging geography of globalization, places such as Appalachia and the rural Midwest began to stand out as points of contrast — examples of “localism transcendent.
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