http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/10/04/home-is-where-the-heartland-is.aspxRachael , I think you’ve put your finger on Sarah Palin’s “heartland” problem, but perhaps not in a way for which you will thank me. Accepting your premise that Palin deploys the term not in a geographic sense, but to express her “experience, ideology,enCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)