Iowan
Des Moines native
An Iowan is a person from Iowa, a state in the American Midwest.
As an adjective, Iowan describes things relating to Iowa or its people: Iowan farmland stretches for miles, the Iowan accent.
Iowa's early presidential caucuses make Iowans politically significant every four years.
Central region of significance
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- MidwestNorth-central American region
- Great LakesFive connected inland seas
- flyover countryDismissed interior regions
American Gothic · Grant Wood · Mississippi River · amber waves · breadbasket · Des Moines · Cedar Rapids · Sioux City
Cultivating land for food
- soybeansProtein-rich Asian legume
- cornCereal grown on cobs
- pigsDomesticated farm swine
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
harvest · combine · silo · crop rotation · ethanol · hog farming · feedlot · tillage
Cob-bearing cereal crop
- huskDry seed covering
- cobMaize ear's central cylinder
- kernelSeed or essential core
- sweetcornTender maize variety
detasseling · cornfield · ethanol · silage · starch · syrup · popcorn · cornbread
Intraparty nomination contests
- delegatesChosen representatives or assigns
- nominationFormal candidate selection
- candidatesThose seeking selection
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
voting · campaigns · endorsements · conventions · precincts · grassroots · platforms · debates
heartland
Central region of significance
- prairieOpen grassy flatland
- MidwestNorth-central American region
- Great LakesFive connected inland seas
flyover country · American Gothic · Grant Wood · Mississippi River · amber waves · breadbasket · Des Moines · Cedar Rapids · Sioux City · Hawkeye
farming
Cultivating land for food
cattle · harvest · combine · silo · crop rotation · ethanol · hog farming · feedlot · tillage · plowing
maize
Cob-bearing cereal crop
sweetcorn · detasseling · cornfield · ethanol · silage · starch · syrup · popcorn · cornbread · corn-fed
primaries
Intraparty nomination contests
- delegatesChosen representatives or assigns
- nominationFormal candidate selection
- candidatesThose seeking selection
polling · voting · campaigns · endorsements · conventions · precincts · grassroots · platforms · debates · elections
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
- MidwesternersOhioan, Kansan, Nebraskan, Minnesotan, Wisconsinite
- DemonymsAmerican, Australian, Canadian, British, Chinese
Iowanout-of-stater
Person from different state
Californian · New Yorker · Texan · Alaskan · Hawaiian
IowanNebraskan
Midwestern state resident
Minnesotan · Wisconsinite · Missourian · Illinoisan · Kansan
- Iowa CityEastern midwestern university town
- Iowa State UniversityLand-grant university in Ames
- Iowa caucusInitial presidential selection event