Originally 'of or coming from the north' - the sub-arctic application is much
more modern, abstracted from the classical. So neologistic rather than
technical.
Your flyover country appears to be a concept excluding all the boring bits and
people in the vast spaces between the interesting bits - the coasts. It seems
far more interesting than our vast emptinesses (Iowa notwithstanding?). We
cling on to the coasts desperately, a partly urban fringe. The rest of it,
'beyond the black stump', is a rather scary place, inhabited by the mad and the
dead.
Andrew Fildes
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On 06/05/2014, at 5:43 PM, Moose wrote:
> "The term /boreal/ is applied to ecosystems with a subarctic climate in the
> Northern hemisphere, approximately between latitude 45° to 65° North."
>
>> Opposite of Austral.
>
> "... of or relating to the Southern hemisphere."
>
> So not exactly right in a technical sense, but OK.
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