flyover country
(US, sometimes, pejorative) The parts of the United States between the East and West Coasts.
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(US, sometimes, pejorative) The parts of the United States between the East and West Coasts.
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.
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