heartland Definition

stronghold, bastion, fortress, core, heart, bulwark, crux, center, governed, nucleus, bunker, centre, cardiac, coeur, cardiology, cœur, hinterland, midwest, southern, countryside, northern, western, region, northeast, northeastern, country, northwest, southeastern, southwest, southwestern, southeast, north, central, northwestern, outback, rust belt, bastions, suburbs, battleground, badlands, bible belt, birthplace, plains, backblocks, rustbelt, enclaves, blue collar, dairyland, roots, backwater, exurbia, eastern, exurbs, fertile crescent, exurb, hotbed, metropolis, epicenter, flatlands, suburbia, mecca, hub, zagros mountains, towns, souther, backwoods, boondocks, cornfields, cotswold hills, resurgent, nowheresville, prairies, south, frontier, hamlets, farmlands, ruhr valley, redoubt, rubes, cosmopolis, ruhrgebiet, underbelly, populists, postindustrial, wasteland, yokels, ghettoes, hick, boomtown, swath, tablelands, communities, metropolises, outskirts, swathes, west, fringes, suburbanites, territory, megalopolises,