Man, fuck this sentiment. It's just as bad as the whole "get these foreigners out of here!" anti immigration sentiment that's taking hold all over. There's an exceedingly high likelihood that your family moved to the Midwest from somewhere else at some point in time. Cities and regions change over time, people move to where there's an opportunity for them to have a better life. Just because you were born somewhere doesn't entitle you to that place staying unchanged.

Well it's probably not natives who'd be moving out there. Think of it as a polite invitation to transplants to go home.