heartland
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The rise of Catholicism in the continent is accelerating the shift away from the church’s traditional European heartland and toward the global south.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Southern Lebanon is the heartland of Lebanon's Shia Muslim community, Hezbollah's main support base.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
Last year saw sectarian violence in the country's coastal Alawite heartland and in southern Syria's Druze-majority Sweida province.
From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026
In a college sports landscape lorded over by billionaires, none other than John Mellencamp—the 74-year-old heartland rocker—has played no small part in Indiana’s rise from laughingstock to the No. 1 team in the country.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
It is believed that this accident is the first such between horse-drawn vehicle and internal combustion engine in the twentieth century here in the Hoosier heartland.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Political Geography - Middle School
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Political Geography - High School
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