# heartland (core)

*Ordinarily means:* the interior regions of a country, seen as its traditional core; 'flyover country' is the same area described as overlooked

A collective self that divides into an in-group and an out-group by region, reading land far from its large cities as where its real members live.

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [region](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-region.spatial), [land](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-land.geography), [far](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-far.distance), [large](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-large.size), [city](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-city.place), [real](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real.actual), [live](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-live.biological), [division](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-division.process), [in-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside), [out-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social)

**Through:** One region is read as the group's core; seen from the other pole the same land is flyover country, passed over, so one line carries two opposite readings.

**Novel properties:**
- one region read as core from one pole and as passed over from the other
- the group's centre placed in its land and not its people

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-heartland.core*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-heartland.core.json*  
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