/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The reason the midwest sucks so bad is this:

Most of the initial population here in the late 1800s and early 1900s were German immigrants. Their culture was raped when WASPs from the East Coast not only banned alcohol (beerhalls were quite central to German community, family life, and social events), but even outlawed things as simple as saeurkrat during the decades around WW1.

If you take away the things that make a culture its culture, you kill that area. This made the midwest more ripe for the introduction commodity culture of the early to mid 20th century than other places. It also didn't have a lot of other immigrant groups moving in. Only African-Americans, and they were much to poor to contribute all that much.

The midwest will continue to be fucked as long as the baby boomers are around and millennials flee to the meme states of the early 21st century.