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And then there is the rest of America, which turned out to be flyover country cast aside by that strata of society," he added.
It is only because of an unexpected political earthquake that the people in America's so-called flyover country have entered the national consciousness.
HEN THEY STARTED planning Our Towns in 2012, it looked like James and Deborah Fallows had found a clever new way to explore the heart and soul of flyover country. For the next four years, with James at the controls of their $600,000 single-engine prop airplane, the married pair of Atlantic writers intermittently dropped in on about 30 small towns and cities, from seaside Eastport, Maine, to James' hometown of Redlands, California.
A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as "memorable" (Stephen Burt, Yale Review) and "impressive" (Chicago Tribune), Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: The violence we do to the land, to animals, to refugees, to the people of distant countries, and to one another.
Austin Smith; FLYOVER COUNTRY; Princeton University Press (Nonfiction: Poetry) 17.95 ISBN: 9780691181578
as kindnesses, especially here, in flyover country,
Territory that used to be flyover country is now seen as a viable option, Osmundson said.
The wildfires here in "Flyover Country" were devastating.
Colombini wonders if the entertainment industry might follow the Times' lead, seeking "ways to placate viewers in that great swath of the country referred to as the heartland, or 'flyover country,' encompassing the Bible, Corn and Rust Belts."
"It's a level of condescension, Hillary has admitted that she views much of the country essentially as flyover country," he added.
Over more than half a century, Jim Harrison has remained an unrepentant Flyover Country iconoclast (first in Michigan and of late in Montana) capable of truly memorable turns of phrase and haunting images.
on CNN -- a time when viewers may not be expecting traditional anchor-and-desk fare -- and let loose with a bunch of topical jokes that might make for a sort of "Daily Show'' for flyover country.
In syndication, when you lose your g.m's in flyover country, you got problems.
"We sometimes call this flyover country. We are finding all sorts of new star formation in the lesser-known areas at the outer edges of the galaxy," said Barbara Whitney, an astronomer from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who uses Spitzer to study young stars.