The Heart of Dixie: An Essay in Folk Geography

Reed, John Shelton

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“…Most important for our purposes, Reed and his colleagues (Reed 1976;Reed, Kohls and Hanchette 1990) studied business names in the South. This work assumes that business names have symbolic meaning.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A complete listing of D and S scores appears in the Appendix. Following previous work (Reed 1976;, Reed, Kohls and Hanchette 1990) we also map D and S scores.…”

Section: Identification With the Old And New Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For comparison purposes, Figure 1 presents Reed's (1976) original map of D scores and Figure 2 is our map of D scores in 2008. To produce our map, we began with the data collection procedure described above.…”

Section: Identification With the Old And New Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To produce our map, we began with the data collection procedure described above. We then used an ordinary krigging method to interpolate the data in between points (Issaks and Srivastava 1990) and, using Arc GIS 9.3, placed each location into one of the four ranges used by Reed (1976). Comparing the two D-score maps shows quite a few changes in naming patterns from 1976 through 2008.…”

Section: Identification With the Old And New Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Declining Dixie: Regional Identification in the Modern American South

Cooper

Knotts

2010

Social Forces

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We replicate and extend John Shelton Reed's classic work on regional identification by examining and modeling the prevalence of the words "Dixie" and "Southern" in business names across 100 cities and four decades. We find that the instances of "Dixie" have dropped precipitously, although identification with the word "Southern" has remained more constant, providing evidence of a trend we term re-southernization. We also find that the relative number of blacks in the population provides the most consistent explanation of regional identity. Population density has also emerged as a significant predictor of regional identification in more recent time periods. These findings contribute to the literature on regional identification, the politics of naming and the sociology of the South.

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Section: Reed's Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A complete listing of D and S scores appears in the Appendix. Following previous work (Reed 1976;, Reed, Kohls and Hanchette 1990) we also map D and S scores.…”

Section: Identification With the Old And New Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Identification With the Old And New Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Identification With the Old And New Southmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Declining Dixie: Regional Identification in the Modern American South

Cooper

Knotts

2010

Social Forces

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“…Jennifer Mann (2010) examined the extent to which the coast is more or less prominent as a vernacular region nationwide. John Shelton Reed (1976) compared the frequency of Dixie and The South, and a generation later his study was updated to reflect the declining use of the term Dixie (Ambinakudige 2009). The vernacular Midwest and Pacific Northwest have been mapped (Shortridge 1980(Shortridge , 1985Lowry, Patterson, and Forbes 2008).…”

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Use of Business-Naming Practices to Delineate Vernacular Regions: A Michigan Example

Liesch

Dunklee

Legg

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Journal of Geography

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This article provides a history of efforts to map vernacular regions as context for offering readers a way of using business directories in order to construct a GIS-based map of vernacular regions. With Michigan as a case study, the article discusses regional-naming conventions, boundaries, and inclusions and omissions of areas from regional labels in order to offer educators ideas that can enhance classroom content on regions. This article concludes by providing suggestions for classroom activities collecting, analyzing, and discussing vernacular region patterns and processes in accordance with National Geography Standard Five at the eighth-grade level.

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New market groupings based on food consumption patterns

Larson

2004

Agribusiness

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Consumption of different food categories varies across the US+ A cluster analysis of 52 markets based on food sales in 62 categories found 11 market groupings with similar consumption patterns+ These new market groupings were compared with a cluster analysis based on data from 10 years earlier+ Many patterns were similar but a few shifts in consumption patterns were also noted+ Evidence suggested that some regional food preferences may have fragmented during the last 10 years+ Researchers, managers, and policy makers should use market groupings based on fairly current data when they examine food demand trends across geographics, test marketing programs, identify opportunities in selected markets, forecast results for regional expansions, or evaluate regional initiative performance+ @EconLit citations: L660, R220, Q130+#

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The Heart of Dixie: An Essay in Folk Geography

Cited by 26 publications

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Declining Dixie: Regional Identification in the Modern American South

Declining Dixie: Regional Identification in the Modern American South

Use of Business-Naming Practices to Delineate Vernacular Regions: A Michigan Example

New market groupings based on food consumption patterns

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