Middle American

British  

adjective

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

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Middle America

2. a member of the US middle class

Example Sentences

The story centers on Alice, an ordinary Middle American girl who begins to suffer from a mental disorder while enrolled at the University of Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s 1922, and the middle American kingdom of Cahokia is thriving.

From Los Angeles Times

“It wasn’t that easy,” says Estrada-Belli, a professor at Tulane University’s Middle American Research Institute and an expert in the Preclassic and Classic Maya periods.

From National Geographic

The event, Rios said, was deliberately Middle American — “baseball, hot dogs and apple pie,” she said — as befitting the desire to keep the effort broad and bottom-up, with reach “from Fairbanks to Philadelphia.”

From New York Times

If you live on a decent-sized property in a major Middle American city or a grass-covered suburb in the Northeast, there’s a good chance your local government is encouraging you to keep your lawnmower locked up right now.

From Slate