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I'm not even sure that we're part of flyover country.

Nobody wanted to be stuck out in flyover country the week before Christmas, not with a big storm coming.

"So many people call this flyover country," he said.

One of those boring robots from flyover country.

Flyover country thus refers to the part of the country that many Americans only view by air and never actually see in person at ground level.

But on the evidence of the most recent cases, the folks in flyover country have grown more worldly than big-city journalists give them credit for.

I meant no disrespect for "flyover country."

Here are some other pros and cons to consider before cashing out and heading to flyover country.

I don't treat Middle America as flyover country."

The folks in flyover country felt overflown by this swinging bicoastal encounter session.

Most picture books plod through their front matter, treating the cover, endpapers, copyright and title page like flyover country before finally introducing a story.

However, for most of them Switzerland remained somewhat of a flyover country on the way to the more popular Mediterranean destinations.

Using the profits from these markets, they will continue to block small cooperatives or local start-ups from wiring and selling to flyover country.

This may be flyover country to most Americans, but from the ground, there is not so much as a jet's roar to break the whine of the wind.

(Thus has security occasioned a psychic recalibration of the nation's geography: flyover country is suddenly a great place to fly to.)

The hip urbanite ventures into flyover country disguised as a Kazakh yokel to see how the American yokels respond.

Many were eager for the invasion to start, though some said they feared it would escalate into a prolonged world war, threatening safety even here in flyover country.

Sitting firmly in the middle of flyover country, in thrall to neither Europe nor Asia, Chicago quietly developed an identity all its own.

Billman's territory, in "When We Were Wolves," his auspicious debut collection, is flyover country.

"Yeah, open one up in New York and another in California and they won't even have tolook at 'flyover country' anymore," Miller said, grumpily.

This time, Salt Lake City played the role of Hollywood, rural Utah was the new Silicon Valley, and California was cast as flyover country.

Flyover country and flyover states are Americanisms describing the region of the United States between the East and the West Coasts.

They're the flyover country between a reviewer's landing strips of judgment, revealing almost nothing about the way a book actually works, almost nothing about why it succeeds or fails.

He loved his little girl out there in flyover country, and hadn't been active much sexually since his divorce, so he was probably still carrying a torch for his ex.

His 2011 book, Flyover Country, documents the history of his high school graduation class of 1969 from Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.