Grange supporters won control of state legislatures in a number of middle western states.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

which I don't know if you guys are familiar with. It's like a rural state in the middle of America,

我不知道你们对那里熟不熟悉。
这是在美国中部的一个以乡村为主的州。

来自爱荷华 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

"We are seeing a lot of actions to try to help solve the conflict in the Middle East on the basis of two-state solution."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

Considered as a group of consumers, a middle class created by the state is unlikely to behave any differently from a private-sector middle class.

ECONOMIST: Beyond Wisteria Lane

It is rarer to find a middle-income state in which law and order once existed but later failed.

ECONOMIST: Wealth, poverty and fragile states

That leaves the battle for Florida heavily contested in a handful of counties in the middle of the state: a region often referred to as the I-4 corridor after Interstate-4, which runs from the Tampa Bay region in the west through Orlando in the inland centre to Daytona Beach on the east coast.

ECONOMIST: The swing states: Florida