Heartland

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Heartland is a geopolitical term used to refer to the central areas of Eurasia and the United States. In Eurasia it is remote and inaccessible from the periphery. The term Heartland has a particular importance in the works of Sir Halford Mackinder. He believed that the Heartland was the strategic region of the foremost importance in the world. See Heartland (geopolitics).

The term Heartland is also frequently used to describe the region in the United States that lies between the East coast and West Coast. It is also used for other areas of the US which are culturally similar to the Heartland; for example, the Stater Bros. supermarket chain, which is concentrated in the Inland Empire counties of southern and central California, ran TV commercials for many years using the slogan "in the Heartland" to refer to inland counties such as San Bernardino County, Kern County and Riverside County being culturally more similar to the central United States than to coastal California.

In addition, the term can also be applied to the central region of any nation of economic, geopolitical or cultural significance.

Contents 1 Music and media 2 Organizations 3 Places 4 Sport 5 Other

[edit] Music and media

• Heartland, a 1994 Australian television series starring Cate Blanchett.
• Heartland, New Zealand television series
• Heartland with John Kasich (formerly called From the Heartland), American political television show with John Kasich on Fox News Channel
• Heartland, 1979 movie starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell
• Heartlands, 2003 movie starring Michael Sheen and Celia Imrie
• Heartland, 1964 novel by Wilson Harris
• Heartland, a 20-book series by Lauren Brooke
• Heartland, country music band
• Heartland, début album from Australian New Romantic band Real Life
• Heartland, fourth album from Scottish band Runrig
• Heartland, song by U2 from the Rattle and Hum album
• The Heartland Café, album released by Swedish pop/rock band Gyllene Tider in February 1984
• Heartland Film Festival, film festival held each October in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
• Heartland rock, popular form of rock and roll in the 1970s and 1980s
• Murder in the Heartland, television miniseries aired on ABC in 1993
• Heartland, proposed title of the next Final Fantasy album, to be released in 2007
• Heartland, a computer game for the Commodore 64
• Heartland, a 2007 music album by Client
• "Heartland", song by The Sisters of Mercy from the Temple of Love E.P.

[edit] Organizations

• Heartland Baptist Bible College, formerly known as Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College, an unaccredited independent Baptist Bible college located at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
• Heartland Brewery, brewery in New York City, USA
• Heartland Christian Camp, Free Methodist Christian camp in Birmingham, Iowa, USA
• Heartland Community College, educational establishment affiliated with Illinois State University, USA
• Heartland Conference, American NCAA Division II college athletic conference
• Heartland Corridor, American joint venture between the Norfolk Southern Railway and the Federal Highway Administration
• Heartland Dream Center, Christian academy and youth ministry based in Raleigh, Illinois, USA
• Heartland Elementary School, part of the Blue Valley School District, Kansas, USA
• Heartland Express, freight transportation company
• Heartland Flyer, daily all-coach train running a 332 km route between Fort Worth, Texas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
• Heartland Inn, chain of hotels based in Iowa, USA
• Heartland Institute, free-market oriented public policy think tank based in Chicago, USA
• Heartland Pagan Festival, yearly pagan festival held in Tonganoxie, Kansas, USA
• Heartland Payment Systems, credit card and payroll service provider

[edit] Places

• "Heartland", area in Southern Saskatchewan, Canada
• Heartland Village, Staten Island, residential development on Staten Island, New York, USA
• Western Heartlands, fictional region in the fantasy setting of the Forgotten Realms

[edit] Sport

• Heartland Championship, amateur domestic rugby union competition in New Zealand
• Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC), American intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III
• Heartland F.C., formerly Iwuanyanwu Nationale, Nigerian soccer club based in Owerri, Nigeria
• Heartland League, independent baseball league that operated from 1996–98 in the central United States
• Heartland Park Topeka, multi-purpose motorsports facility south of Topeka, Kansas, USA
• Heartland Trophy, brass bull presented to the winner of the Iowa–Wisconsin american football game
• Heartland Wrestling Association, independent wrestling promotion based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
• St Louis Heartland Eagles, Tier 1 junior ice hockey team playing in the West Division of the United States Hockey League (USHL)

[edit] Other

• "Heartlanders" (as opposed to "Cosmopolitans") is a term used in Singapore, and coined in 1999 by its then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, to characterise the majority of the Singapore population that is generally poorer, less educated, either working class or lower-middle class, speaks a distinct variety of English (Singlish), lives in HDB housing estates, and has a local (rather than global) perspective on political, economic and cultural issues.