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Fair enough, I was mostly reacting to @Cherico claim that the midwest represented the Political Heart of America, which speaks more to pre-eminent ness rather than relevantness. Though relevant is a fairly slipperly term in this kind of discussion. They exist, but I'm not sure how relevant they...

Well, to work through an analogy, I'm sure there's some Roman Emperor who won the throne because Dacia in the Balkans threw its support behind him, giving him the legions to win his particular war of succession, but I don't think anyone would believe that marked Dacia as the heart of the Roman...

Um, flyover is a phrase for a reason: the middle is in no way the political heartland of the United States: that has always been New England, pushing down to Washington DC. The central US is poltically and culturally more or less irrelevant. Possibly more so than even the Southern US was, since...