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Middle America
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English
Proper noun
middle America
en US A portion of the United States comprising rural and suburban areas, and the mindsets of these areas.
en heartland
en https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/boom-town-sam-anderson-oklahoma-city-review/570730/ 'Boom Town' Explodes the Notion of ‘Flyover’ Territory w:The Atlantic 2018-09-26 Carson Vaughan 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20180927132943/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/09/boom-town-sam-anderson-oklahoma-city-review/570730/
en US The American middle class.
en US The Midwestern United States.
en Midwest
A geographical region comprising Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
Related terms
Middle Americanist
Translations
geographical region
Finnish: fi Väli-Amerikka
Polish: pl Ameryka Środkowa f
Spanish: es América Media, es América Medial
Further reading
Middle America (United States)
Middle America (region)
en Geographic and cultural areas of North America Geographic and cultural areas of the United States