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Focusing on the South for this thread, what do you think of this map? Are there any changes you would make? The author of the book (published in 1981) divided the U.S. into separate "nations" and picked Atlanta as the capital of Dixie. However, should areas such as Dallas or southern Indiana be included or not?
I would say a lot has changed in the last 40 years and that map is outdated.
I would say "Dixie" would be SC, GA (outside of the ATL Metroplex), AL, MS and maybe northern FL. Sure there are pockets of "Dixie" in TN, NC and Virginia (mostly the southern part), but over the last 40 years, there have been so many transplants that have moved to the South from the Northeast and the Midwest, if definitely has changed the South.
More than half of NC is probably made up of transplants (and their offspring) that have moved there over the last 20-30 years!
Focusing on the South for this thread, what do you think of this map? Are there any changes you would make? The author of the book (published in 1981) divided the U.S. into separate "nations" and picked Atlanta as the capital of Dixie. However, should areas such as Dallas or southern Indiana be included or not?
Dallas & Houston are not “Dixie” at all. That line should be moved about 50 miles east of those Metroplexes.
I feel more comfortable including Southern Indiana in Dixie than having bread basket extend that far south and west in Texas and NM. Was the author from California?
Dallas and Houston are definitely Dixie.
I think the line should be moved further west of Houston. Maybe past Richmond
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In Indiana the area with more of a Mid South feel isn't that far north. Draw a line from Madison to Seymour to across from Owensboro KY. I'd also think you have to go a lot further south of STL in Missouri to get a Mid South feel.
Texas joined the Confederacy of course, but the culture of Dallas and Houston today are not Dixie at all.
Far East Texas is as redneck as anywhere in the Deep South though.
Texas joined the Confederacy of course, but the culture of Dallas and Houston today are not Dixie at all.
Far East Texas is as redneck as anywhere in the Deep South though.
Have to disagree. I’ve spent a lot of time in Texas. Just spent a week in Dallas. Yes, it’s very southern. Every state in the South has a different southerness to it.
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