Middle America (United States)
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.
A photo taken on the International Space Station by Terry W. Virts captioned "Looking back over middle America at twilight"
An abandoned American farm, June 2015
Heartland (United States)
The heartland, when referring to a cultural region of the United States, is the central land area of the country, usually the Midwestern United States or the states that do not border the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, associated with mainstream or traditional values, such as economic self-sufficiency, conservative political and religious ideals, and rootedness in agrarian life.
Iowa terrain
A church in South Dakota
Corn field in Iowa
The term heartland often invokes imagery of rural areas, such as this wheat field in Kansas.