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The linguistic and cultural boundary between north and south corresponds
to the old National Highway across Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. US40 as
I recall without a map handy. The migration routes and times are fairly
distinct. Folks from North Carolina got into Tennessee early and then
Kentucky, augmented by people from Virginia and Maryland by the 1790s.
When Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois opened for settlement the folks in
Kentucky and Tennessee headed north. The southern culture also
corresponds fairly closely to the hilly, unglaciated portions of those
states. The people were adapted to farming on hills and in valleys.
A somewhat later migration came from New York and Pennsylvania settling
the glaciated flat northern parts of those three states. The
architecture, foodways, and worldviews differ markedly between the two
areas. Indiana (and Oregon for similar reasons) were Copperhead states
in the Civil War and could well have joined the Southern cause.
William Hampton Adams
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