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The term heartland often invokes imagery of rural areas, such as this wheat field in Kansas. Iowa terrain. The heartland, when referring to a cultural region of the United States, is the central land area of the country, [1] usually the Midwestern United States [2] or the states that do not border the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, [3] associated with mainstream or traditional values, such as ...
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
A street in West Point, Indiana, in October 2010. Middle America is a colloquial term for the United States heartland, especially the culturally suburban areas of the United States, typically the Lower Midwestern region of the country, which consists of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and downstate Illinois.
American Heartland Theme Park and Resort is tangled in debt, with liens on the property in Vinita, but remains undeterred. Here's where things stand.
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used ... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
American Heartland will be an "anchor tourist destination" expected to attract more than 2 million out-of-state visitors each year, said Kristy Adams, senior executive vice president of sales and ...
Washington, in the Pacific Northwest, was the 42nd state admitted to the union. Thirty-one of the 50 United States are home to a Washington County. There are more than 200 Washington Townships in the United States, including five (plus one Washington Borough) in the state of New Jersey.
As population and economic downturns hit many parts of the American heartland, some policy analysts and elected officials have begun to throw their support behind place-based visas that would ...