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A nation's worth of land that coastal egos reduced to a window-seat blur.
means A flyover is either a bridge carrying one road or railway over another, or—in American usage—the vast interior regions of a country that travelers literally fly over without stopping.
from A plain compound of "fly" and "over," first used for the literal act of flying above something. In British English it settled onto road bridges by the mid-20th century. The American sense of "flyover country" or "flyover states" is younger, born of coast-to-coast air travel: the land you cross at 30,000 feet between New York and Los Angeles, glanced at through a porthole and never touched. The phrase carries the faint sneer of those who only ever pass over.
- coined slur
- "Flyover country" was meant as a dismissal
- feeds everyone
- That blur grows most of America's food
- airshow term
- Also a thunderous formation pass over stadiums
- british meaning
- In the UK it just means an overpass
chicago's lake shore drive — elevated expressway built 1938-1966 spanning 31 miles along lake michigan
new jersey's route 495 — elevated highway over the hackensack river, opened 1960
delhi's elevated roads — 400+ km of flyovers built since 1998 to reduce traffic congestion