lowlanders

Thus in this part of the world's surface, as in so many others, the physical line of demarcation drawn by Nature herself between the highlanders and the lowlanders is accompanied by an industrial, moral, and political dissimilarity.

The American Revolution. The Border Slave States 1861

In times of merriment, my late father used to enjoy tormenting Mum by referring to her, and her Borthwick forebears as “filthy lowlanders.”

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

My understanding is that the majority of immigration from Scotland to the US in the 18th century was of highlanders, who were at the time still predominantly RC, unlike the Presbyterian lowlanders.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009

By 1905, the road was finished and the Americans and lowlanders finally reached the highlands and the tribal people whose laidback and subdued community has gradually changed.

Historical Kennon Road revisited Nomadicasian 2008

The wiry mountain tribesmen swarmed over the defending guards, dragging them off their mounts and plunging daggers deep into the struggling lowlanders.

Mini-interview: Jeff Stewart | 2008

It identifies a unified nation with a single people, the Filipinos, and also a highly fragmented, plural society divided between Muslims and Christians, peasants and city dwellers, uplanders and lowlanders, rich and poor, and between the people of one ethnic, linguistic, or geographic region and those of another.

Archive 2008-02-01 vonjobi 2008

It identifies a unified nation with a single people, the Filipinos, and also a highly fragmented, plural society divided between Muslims and Christians, peasants and city dwellers, uplanders and lowlanders, rich and poor, and between the people of one ethnic, linguistic, or geographic region and those of another.

The Philippines: Singular and Plural vonjobi 2008

Now, it will serve those of political bent to have the lowlanders believe they are all very different from one another: one of the easiest ways to keep people from evaluating your worth is to convince them that you are protecting them from an “other.”

Archive 2007-09-01 Steven Barnes 2007

Now, it will serve those of political bent to have the lowlanders believe they are all very different from one another: one of the easiest ways to keep people from evaluating your worth is to convince them that you are protecting them from an “other.”

Dinosaur nations and the "jena Six" Steven Barnes 2007

In Gifts, Orrec and Gry are teens maturing in a feudal society of uplanders and lowlanders that seems much like medieval Europe.

Archive 2006-02-01 ricklibrarian 2006