Flyover country

[Zipporah Schumaker]

The middle class Midwest that is typically flown over by scheduled airlines in their hops between their major hubs. The bounds of flyover country vary from [urbanite] to urbanite. People from Chicago tend to think it runs from the Mississippi River to the [Rockies] (and also Indiana). Bay Area, its the San Joaquin Valley east to Chicago. New York, its anything that is not within [an hours] drive of The City.

[Renato]

parts of the United States which many people only see when they fly over them on journeys to the other coast, but which they would never visit: