Making the Heartland Quilt
Meyer, Douglas K.![Making the Heartland Quilt](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/192/19231525/CHSBZCOP0319231525.jpg)
Reconstructs the settlement patterns of thirty-three immigrant groups and confirms the emergence of discrete culture regions and regional way stations. Douglas K. Meyer argues that mid-continental Illinois symbolizes a historic test-strip of the diverse population origins that unfolded during the Great Migration.