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Yankee or Dixie?
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: brokeplex on March 30, 2008, 11:33:28 pm ---Geographers note that the cultural area known as "Dixie" does include the areas which you noted: a boundary line running through central VA, up into the most of KY even into far the southern 1/8th of IN, down into the southern quarter of MO, the eastern half of AR and eastern third of TX. (in TX we know that the West begins in Ft Worth and the South peters out in Dallas ;D) following the Gulf coastal line it swings thru central FL but excludes most of the peninsula. Geographers use several clues as to where Dixie ends and begins, some of the clues are as mundane as what is the largest Protestant denomination in towns in question. Dixie towns will tend to have Southern Baptist denoms as key churches. Although this is not exclusive. Key communities that would be markers as to location of the the boundaries of cultural Dixie would then be : Richmond VA, Charleston WV, Cincinnati OH, St Louis MO, Springfield MO, Little Rock AR, Dallas TX, Austin TX, Houston TX, and Jacksonville FL. If one draws a line using those cities as boundary points and encloses the area inside, one gets a idea, although inexact and subject to much dispute among Geographers, as to where is the land of Dixie. The boundaries of Dixie have changed much due to in migration from the north and west during the 1960's thru to today. And one is much more likely to get the "flavor" of Dixie in the small towns rather than the larger cities of the area.
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I seem to remember, when I was in graduate school, one of my professors, himself a native North Carolinian, mentioning a book entitled South of the James Lies Dixie, meaning south of the James River in Virginia.
Shakesthecoffecan:
81% Dixie, :laugh: When in reality it is only 75%
forsythia12:
i scored 57% dixie. that's how come me ended up here....in canada!
BlissC:
--- Quote ---57% (Dixie). Barely into the Dixie category.
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Snap!
Not quite sure what being 57% Dixie means when you're from the northern bit of the UK, but I think I'm slowly being Americanised hanging round places like Bettermost....sometimes these days I even find myself forgetting to put a "u" in colour! :o
brokeplex:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 02, 2008, 09:15:59 am ---I seem to remember, when I was in graduate school, one of my professors, himself a native North Carolinian, mentioning a book entitled South of the James Lies Dixie, meaning south of the James River in Virginia.
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good point, I have heard this before about the James River divide. Most texts on regionalism in the US will list the criteria on how the regions are defined. And there are really not exact boundaries of the Dixie cultural region. Many geographers would prefer not putting either Appalachia or the Ozarks inside the Dixie region, but would give them their own separate regional identities.
When I travel, I know that I am back in Dixie when in the small towns I travel thru I see more than one Southern Baptist church and a Dairy Queen all on the mainstreet of the town! ;D
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