heartland

The AfD became Germany's second biggest party in February's federal elections, spreading from its eastern heartland to areas of the west too.

A multi-million pound regeneration plan is under way in what was once part of the city's industrial heartland.

But some members have complained that the party is now too focused on shoring up support in its rural heartlands in the North East and the Borders, to defend its five constituency seats.

Her presence in the genre, her Blackness and her artistry, challenged long-standing assumptions about who belongs in the visual and sonic mythology of the American heartland.

Which is another way of saying mother and daughter Zimiga are real finds, true-to-themselves keepers of a heartland tradition, and fresh faces getting to tell that story in a nontraditional form.