middle american

noun

average middle-class Americans as a group, as distinguished from the rich or poor or the politically extreme.

the Midwest.

continental North America S of the U.S., comprising Mexico, Central America, and usually the West Indies. 1,060,118 sq. mi. (2,745,705 sq. km).

Related forms

Middle American, adjective, noun

Mid·dle-A·mer·i·can, adjective

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Middle America

—n
1.	the territories between the US and South America: Mexico, Central America, Panama, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles
2.	the US middle class, esp those groups that are politically conservative

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Middle American

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to the territories between the US and South America or their inhabitants
2.	of or relating to the US middle class, esp those groups that are politically conservative

—n
3.	a native or inhabitant of Middle America
4.	a member of the US middle class

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Middle America definition

The interior regions of the United States, as distinguished from the East Coast and West Coast.

Note: Middle America is associated with conservative, traditional values in politics, religion, and culture.

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"The American novel tends to rest in contradictions and among extreme ranges of experience. When it attempts to resolve contradictions, it does so in oblique, morally equivocal ways. As a general rule, it does so either in melodramatic actions or in pastoral idylls, although intermixed with both one may find the stirring instabilities of "American humor." These qualities constitute the uniqueness of that branch of the novelistic tradi tion which has flourished in this country. They help to account for the strong element of "romance" in the American "novel." By contrast, the English novel has followed a middle way. It is notable for its great practical sanity, its powerful, engrossing composition of wide ranges of experience into a moral centrality and equability of judgment. Oddity, distortion of personality, dislocations of normal life, recklessness of behavior—these the English novel has included. Yet the profound poetry of disorder we find in the American novel is missing, with rare exceptions, from the English."

-Richard Chase

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