Re: Southern American accent?

On 9 Apr 2008 17:23:58 -0700, R H Draney <dadoctah@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hatunen filted:

If one is going to use the term "southern states" as a
distinction from "northern states", one must define a boundary
somewhere, and I see no reason not to use the traditional
Mason-Dixon/Ohio River line as the boundary, despite Marylanders'
apparent desire to avoid any historic connection with those awful
Confederate states. Hell, even Gerogia is no longer a "southern
state" as connotated in olden times.

We've done Joel Garreau here before, and his book "The Nine Nations of North
America", have we not?...

Here's a diagram of the continent as he saw it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:9nations.png

The region identified as "Dixie" is the one we're talking about...it's hard to
tell how much of Delaware or Maryland it encompasses....r

Doesn't look to me if MD or DE are included. I have the book but
I don't feel like dragging it out at the moment. In any case,
Garreau is dealing with the socioeconomic and political realities
of about 1980 (he calls what we now call "The Rustbelt" the
"Foundry").

On the other hand, I don't really see any changes to the
boundaries of the Nine Nations, although I tend to disagree with
including northern Arizona in MexAmerica.

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