Yet even in this heartland, the image of rail as a grimy manual industry is hard to shake off.
When you hear the word Heartland, I bet images of John Cougar, rusty pickup trucks, and cornfields float through your mind.
Factory demolitions in Britain's industrial heartland provided the abiding image of the recession of the early 1980s.
But I'm here to tell you that limiting the Heartland to this stereotypical image will get your brand nowhere really, really fast.
The show has projected to an audience of tens of millions an image of heartland youth driven by faith and strong family values.
The Brazilian State of Minas Gerais has always been considered the heartland of Brazil, evoking images of rural hospitality, hearty food, and rococo colonial architecture nestled between beautiful mountains and rolling hills.
It's Mr. Soup's playful animation and contrasting images of heartland and deep space that make "Take Your Mama" a sweet tribute to a time when far-out was as downhome as it gets.
Clearly, Mitt failed to realize what makes the NASCAR community tick, but his attempt shows that he realizes he must make an effort to improve his image in the heartland.
The series' dense, painterly strokes and images of the heartland (a woman's smiling face framed by a short permed hairdo; a baseball player winding up for the pitch) help evoke a bold, deeply American style.
He argued that the square shape Gadoury saw on a satellite image of the Maya heartland was probably a fallow agricultural field.
