Hicks who hunt? More cows than people? White bread and mashed potatoes? Fly-over country?
A new, 1,916-page, $75 interpretive encyclopedia aims to enlighten those who assume the Midwest contains little more than amber waves of grain and nice but boring people.
(Quoted: Jim Leary and Ruth Olson of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and German professor Mark Louden)