Flyover country andflyover states areAmerican phrases describing the parts of thecontiguous United States between the Northeast and West Coast of the United States.

The origins of the phrases and the attitudes of their supposed users are a source of debate in American culture; the terms are often regarded aspejoratives, but are sometimes "reclaimed" and used defensively.^[1]

The terms refer to the interior regions of the country passed over duringtranscontinental flights, particularly flights between the nation's two most populousurban agglomerations: theNortheastern Megalopolis andSouthern California. "Flyover country" thus refers to the part of the country that some Americans—especially those of urban, wealthier,white-collar status—only view by air when traveling and never actually see in person at ground level.^[2][3]

• Central United States
• Great Plains
• Florida
• Heartland
• Middle America
• Midwestern United States
• Coastie, a pejorative term for people not from the Midwest, especially from the aforementioned Coasts

• de Wit, Cary W. (2007). "Flyover country". In Sisson, Richard; Zacher, Christian K.;Cayton, Andrew Robert Lee (eds.).The American Midwest: an interpretive encyclopedia. Indiana University Press. pp. 66–68.ISBN 978-0-253-34886-9.
• Robertson, David (2004). "FLYOVER COUNTRY". InWishart, David J. (ed.).Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska Press. p. 386.ISBN 978-0-8032-4787-1.

• Regions of the United States
• Central United States
• Political terminology of the United States
• Pejorative terms
• Regionalism (politics)
• Rural society in the United States

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