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Middle England

noun

  1. a characterization of a predominantly middle-class, middle-income section of British society living mainly in suburban and rural England
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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To pollsters this area represents "aspirational Middle England" - people who work hard, have a decent standard of living and want to better themselves and their families.

From BBC

More so than any other British newspaper, The Mail is the voice of what sociologists call Middle England, a broad section of middle-class readers, predominantly white and socially conservative, most of whom live outside London and generally favor Brexit.

It was one of the "whitest" parliamentary seats in the country - middle England writ large.

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The Mail has weathered the long-term decline in newspaper sales better than rivals, overtaking Rupert Murdoch’s Sun to become the UK’s top-selling newspaper last year, and wields political clout as the voice of conservative “middle England”.

From Reuters

Higgins, a college dropout in Leicester, in the heart of Middle England, was working a dead-end office job when he became obsessed with unearthing the truth in war zones using little more than YouTube and geolocation.

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