New Heartland consumers, the people living in the Midwest, parts of the Southwest and Southeast, are the ones watching, voting, attending the tour dates and buying the music and merchandise.

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Take a look at the southwest, the southeast and, of course, Michigan.

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Portland is divided into five main areas: Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, Southeast and North Portland.

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Hibbett Sports, Inc. is an operator of sporting goods retail stores in small to mid-sized markets predominately in the Southeast, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions of the United States.

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The new Heartland, defined as the Midwest, Southwest and parts of the Southeast, is interested in the major issues like everyone else.

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The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch through Monday morning for parts of southwest Alabama, northwest Florida and southeast Mississippi, where three to six more inches of rain are expected.

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It is comprised of the Midwest, Southeast and parts of the Southwest, which have more in common than you might think.

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By Saturday night, tropical-storm-force winds, at 39 mph or stronger, could be felt up to 140 miles for the storm's center about 260 miles south-southwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and 435 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica.

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Still, even as the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast cool a bit, the U.S. Southwest is practically boiling.

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By that point, the storm's eye was situated about 10 miles (20 kilometers) south-southwest of Puerto Angel, Mexico, and 225 miles (365 kilometers) east-southeast of Acapulco.

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