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• W1569803856 abstract "Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s By Robert Wuthnow Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. xvi + 358 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-691-14611-9.Lacking the quick pace of economic transformation in the South, the vibrant tension of life in the Northeast, and the growth rates of the West, the Midwest is regularly perceived as a region in decline. Its small towns, once the symbolic core of America, now display empty storefronts, and its bright young people emigrate after finishing school. Sociologist Robert Wuthnow, a native of the region who now teaches at Princeton, acknowledges once holding this view himself. When he decided to investigate, however, he was surprised to find himself telling an upbeat story (p. xii).Wuthnow argues that the Midwest is a more important part of the United States now than it was fifty years ago. He supports his case with 23 data tables drawn from the census, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and the Internal Revenue Service. These statistics are significant, but do not overwhelm or even dominate the narrative. The book is as much history as social science, and the writing flows seamlessly from personal observation to archival material, and from case studies to broad generalization. The total package is impressive: insights from some two hundred in-depth interviews supplemented by information from local newspapers, company reports, and an original content analysis of changing values via the Farm Journal magazine. Wuthnow is also a skilled writer who displays just the right blend of affection and detachment while leading readers through a nuanced story.Reporting on Midwestern history is a new venture for Professor Wuthnow, whose professional reputation lies in the fields of American religion, civil society, and community life. He is also a product of Lorraine and Lyons, Kansas, however, and curious about their recent fates. Rather than focusing narrowly, he opted instead for regional study - a place he variously terms the heartland, Middle America, and the Midwest. Operationally, it is nine states: Kansas, its plains neighbors from the Dakotas through Oklahoma, plus Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas. It is an odd mix that is never explained, with one classically southern state added and several Midwestern ones ignored. Presumably the intent was to outline the rural Midwest, and for this the sample works; Arkansas appears in the text only briefly.Six themes form the book's core, each with a chapter of its own. The first, which looks at the 1950s, argues against this being a golden age. Yes, the decade was better than the 1930s. But it also was a time of wrenching adjustment with rising prices, capital scarcity, and many marginal farmers being forced off the land. The worst was over by I960, however, leaving the region smaller in population but more prosperous. Wuthnow's next chapter, his most original, discusses the area's image transformation in an age of growing cities and more industrialized farms. Gradually, he demonstrates, the stereotypes of cultural backwardness, isolation, and victimization abated, leaving behind much more positive rural associations: common sense, neighborliness, an ecological ethic, and faith in hard work. …" @default.
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