Flyover Country
2016 presidential election result by county (blue for Democrats, red for Republicans). The largely sparsely populated counties in the interior of the country went largely to the Republicans, while the Democrats dominated the cities and densely populated areas on the coasts.
Flyover country , flyover states or Flyoverland ( flyover country , overflight States ) are phrases in American English , the US states between East - and West Coast describe. The term is often used in a derogatory way and alludes to the two megalopolises , Boswash on the Atlantic coast and Sansan on the Pacific coast, where the economic centers of the United States are located. The name alludes to the fact that some inhabitants of the coast only know the much less populated areas in between from flights from the air.
additional
- A Jason Aldean song titled Fly Over States alludes to the theme.
- A 2013 feature film set in the middle of the United States is called Flyover Country .
literature
- Cary W. de Wit: "Flyover country". In: Richard Sisson, Christian K. Zacher, Andrew Robert Lee Cayton: The American Midwest: An interpretive encyclopedia. Indiana University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-253-34886-9 , pp. 66-68.
- David Robertson: "Flyover Country". In: David J. Wishart: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8032-4787-1 , p. 386.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Landing in the 'Fly-over' country. In: ABC News , March 10, 2012; Techies reject coasts for 'Silicon Prairie'. In: CNN.com , July 16, 2010.
- ↑ Flyover Country in the Internet Movie Database (English)