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Middle America

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Middle America

  1. (US) A portion of the United States comprising rural and suburban areas, and the mindsets of these areas.
    Synonym: heartland
    • 2018 September 26, Carson Vaughan, “'Boom Town' Explodes the Notion of ‘Flyover’ Territory”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      Implicit in dismissals like Mencken’s is the notion that what happens in Middle America should stay in Middle America—that what entertains or illuminates in so-called flyover country couldn’t possibly matter elsewhere.
  2. (US) The American middle class.
  3. (US) The Midwestern United States.
  4. A geographical region comprising Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean

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