Lori Henson, PhD

Indiana State University

Lori.Henson@indstate.edu

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So God made a Farmer

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Lori Henson, PhD Indiana State University

January 07, 2014
4 comments

So God made a Farmer religion media Flyover States and Representations of the U.S. Midwest Civil Religion advertising Curator's Note Dodge RAM trucks’ 2013 Super Bowl ad used overt American civil religious imagery – non-denominational Protestant chur ...

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Re: Erasure and Glorification: Competing Representations of "Flyover Country"

Heartland values

By
Lori Henson, PhD Indiana State University

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 — 5:59 am
Dr. Harkins, thanks so much for the suggestion of Johnson's book! I really appreciate your point about Heartland portrayals tending to be sitcoms, where the characters are perhaps endearing but quirky and somewhat backward. I'm struck, though, b ...