The Breadbasket
Garreau states the "the Breadbasket is the nation that works best". It lies in the flat interior lowland and great plains [naprgl] physiographic regions of North America. In northern Illinois the Breadbasket begins at the Fox river.
The Breadbasket has been called America's "social ratifier": a place where if a new idea is accepted, it is generally considered to be accepted everywhere in the country. President Nixon used to say" Does it play in Preoria?" If accepted in the Breadbasket, it has become a part of our culture.
The Breadbasket is a well educated nation [usbache], due to the establishment of land-grant universities.
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