Regionalism of United States

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Michael Barone, Life May Differ in Your Region; The varied cultures of Greater Appalachia, the Midlands, the Deep South, New England and the Germano-Scandanavian Midwest. Wall Street Journal, Oct 10, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576594843203282876.html
(book review on Colin Woodard, American Nations; A history of the eleven rival regional cultures of North America. Viking, 2011)

Quote: "I think Mr Woodard errs in not defining a separate Germano-Scandinavian America in the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Minnesota, whose isolationist and dovish proclivities made the region the center of opposition to US participation in World War I and (before Pearl Harbor) World War II and a certer of opposition to the Vietnam War.

Note:
(a) Colin Woodard's web site:
http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations
(b) Articles of Confederation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation
( drafted by the Continental Congress in 1776-77, went into use in 1777 and was formally ratified by all 13 states in 1781)
(c) Henry Adams
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Adams
(1838-1918; American historian)
(d)
* Francophone (adj and n; First Known Use 1962):
"of, having, or belonging to a population using French as its first or sometimes second language"

* -phone (noun combining form; Greek phōnē sounding):
"1: sound <homophone> —often in names of musical instruments and sound-transmitting devices <radiophone> <xylophone>
2: speaker of (a specified language) <Francophone>

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(e) breezy (adj): "briskly informal <a breezy essay>"
(f) Yankee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee
(usually referring to people originating in the northeastern United States, or still more narrowly New England; section 1.1 Early usage)
(g) Deep South
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_South
(Historically, it is differentiated from the "Upper South" as being the states which were most dependent on plantation type agriculture during the pre-Civil War period)
(h) For Low Country of South Carolina, see South Carolina Lowcountry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Lowcountry
(known for its agricultural wealth; This area is mostly near or below sea level; thus the term "low country")
(i) For Jacksonians,see Jacksonian democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonian_Democrats
(e political movement toward greater democracy for the common man typified by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters; to end what he termed a "monopoly" of government by elites. Jeffersonians opposed inherited elites but favored educated men, while the Jacksonians gave little weight to education)
(j) James K Polk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_K._Polk
(1795-1849; presidency 1945-1849; When Mexico rejected American annexation of Texas, Polk led the nation to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War [1846-1848], which gave the United States most of its present Southwest)
(k) Delaware River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_River


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