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Title: Different Places, Different People: The Redrawing of Americas Social Geography

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Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: In 1900, Americans were bitterly divided by region. They remembered the Civil War it was as recent to them as the Vietnam War is to us in 2003 and their memories were regularly refreshed by politicians waving the bloody shirt. Even before the War Between the States, Americans had harped on cultural differences between North and South, East and West. Many Midwesterners, for example, used the verb to yankee to mean to cheat. Southerners saw their region as a civilization apart; its racial composition was distinct and its economic backwardness deep. So far apart were the regions that as late as the 1910s northern employers were more likely to seek workers in Europe than in the South...

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Authors: Fischer, Claude S.; Hout, Michael

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Institution: University of California - Berkeley

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Publisher Location: Berkeley, CA

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