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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is how to make the states in the Great Lakes area the most populous and economically powerful region in the United States. That includes Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. How do these states draw immigrants, industry, and cultural capital to the point where there's considered a common "Great Lakes culture" in the same way there's considered to be a common Southern or Northeastern seaboard culture with a POD no later than 1900?

Bonus points if the POD doesn't require the destruction of a major city not in the region.
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