flyover country

English

Noun

flyover country (uncountable)

  1. (US, sometimes derogatory) The parts of the United States between the East and West Coasts.
    Coordinate term: flyover state
    • 2018 September 26, Carson Vaughan, “'Boom Town' Explodes the Notion of ‘Flyover’ Territory”, in The Atlantic‎[1], archived from the original on 27 September 2018:
      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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