What are dead zones?

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or zones:

    Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don’t choose to have it known.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates—the inhabitants of marketing zones in the consumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.
    —J.G. (James Graham)