What is "Middle America"?
Obviously there's no official definition, but does the Lower Midwest come to mind when you hear the term?
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Ohio.
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“Heartland” would be Ohio, it’s heart-shaped and is also where the heart would be, geographically.
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I'd include most of the Midwest (including the Plains) and South outside the big and/our touristy places.
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Peoria
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We should probably ask Jack & Diane.
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At least that was the term 30-40 years ago. Not sure if it still applies today. But the saying was "if it plays in Peoria...." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_it_play_in_Peoria%3F But that was a long time ago. We are dating ourselves using the generic Peoria in this day in and age I think. Peoria as test market In the United States, Peoria has long been seen as a prototypical American city because of its representative demographics and its Midwestern culture, which is commonly perceived as mainstream. As a result, it has traditionally been one of the country's leading test markets. In the 1980s and '90s, comedians like Sam Kinison and musicians such as Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Metallica and Phil Collins all perfected and launched concert tours in Peoria. During presidential campaigns, major TV networks would visit Peoria to gauge the response of everyday Americans on national issues and political candidates. However, demographic changes have made the city less representative of America as a whole, and therefore less attractive as a test market. |
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If one picked a state that most closely represented the demographics of the US it would probably be Illinois. Though it's more urbanized than the average state.
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I think it was on this site where someone said the Midwest is the most useless geographic term there is-- it stretches from the Denver suburbs to Pittsburgh.
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so the coug drove in from indiana, well someone drove him in, they circled the block and nope — then drove straight back to indiana without going in. i dk why i got such a kick out of that at the time, but i thought it was pretty funny. and so the other two c’s don’t feel left out — let’s not forget this early homerpalooza tour classic — |
The letter ‘r’.
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One definition would be anywhere drive-throughs and Applebees exist.
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Anywhere drive-throughs are prevalent, we might have to consider that!
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I always interpreted the term "Middle America" to be about a socio-economic class, or some platonic ideal of America, rather than actually describing a real geographic location.
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