Within this piece, I am arguing that Mexican migration to the Midwest in the early twentieth century is highly overlooked in literature. Most often, the historiography deals with characteristics that typify the Southwest, and I assert that Mexicans in the Midwest differ in several crucial ways – particularly, the choice of an urban area to resettle, industrial employment, the higher rate of women and children accompanying the male laborer, integration into the local community, and relative lack of racism experienced. The bulk of my work deals with Lorain, Ohio – the first Mexican colonia in the state. Lorain existed as a blueprint for other similar colonias in the region, and can be used to understand Mexican migration to Midwest more broadl