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Word: heartlands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...years ago, gay bashing was a staple of the Republican right. Lately, Republicans have largely gone quiet since their pollsters warned them to knock it off. Spreading scare stories about gays just wasn't working. Too many people had come out, and too many blue-haired mothers in the heartland didn't like hearing that their gay son or daughter was worthless and immoral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain and His Gaydar | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...Great Plains (1989) Ian Frazier transformed himself from a supremely hip New Yorker humorist into a serious but never somber chronicler of the American heartland. In On the Rez (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 311 pages; $25) Frazier entertainingly continues this investigation, although his interest is now concentrated on a specific patch of the wide-open spaces, the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Why this place and these people? While researching Great Plains, Frazier met and became friends with Le War Lance, a Sioux man with colorful if not always credible stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Looking for Lost America | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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