The Breadbasket
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The Breadbasket is one of the Nine Nations of North America in a book of the same title, written by Joel Garreau, in which he argues that North America is divided not by state boundaries and national borders, but in terms of cultural divides. These cultural divides result in an apportionment of the North American continent into nine distinct territories — the "nations" of the title.
In a similarly-themed book, The Day America Told The Truth by James Patterson and Peter Kim, this region is called the Granary instead, but its boundaries are essentially the same as those Garreau drew for the Breadbasket: Both include western Indiana, northern and central Illinois except for the immediate Chicago area, Wisconsin except for the Lake Michigan shoreline, the northern half of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the states of Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas in their entirety, the easternmost tier of counties in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and northern New Mexico, the northern and western portions of Missouri and Oklahoma, and the Texas Panhandle.
During the Cold War, Ukraine was often referred to as the Soviet Union's Breadbasket, as an analogue to the North American Breadbasket.