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Multiple Images characterize the south,”The American South is dominated by acomplex of features that many peoplewould identify as Southern: dialects,cuisine, white and African-Americantraditions, sports, and music, as well aspolitics of gun ownership, patriotism, andthe more prominent role of religion inpublic life.• Some places located in the South havefew recognizable Southern qualities. Partsof Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas havestrong ties to the Great Plains. Miami, onthe far southern tip of Florida

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North Lawndale: Impact of Economic Decline on People,”In 1960, there were 125,000 people living in North Lawndale, with two largefactories employing 57,000 workers, and a large retail chain’s corporateheadquarters supporting thousands of secretaries and office workers.• One by one, the employers closed their doors, and by the 1980s North Lawndalewas disintegrating.• By 2003, North Lawndale had shrunk to just 50,000 people, and over 50 percentof the adults were unemployed.• Despite the importance of industry in this region it would be wrong to think ofthe economic core as solely grounded on factories and mines.• The thousands of miles of shoreland around the Great Lakes and oceanfrontalong the Eastern Seaboard provided both winter and summer recreationallandscapes

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loss of economic dominance,”The Old Economic Core is less than five percent of the North American land area,but as recently as 1975, its industries produced more than 70% of thecontinent’s steel, and the subregion was a leader in motor vehicle production.• The industrial economy of this region has gone into severe decline. Cities likeDetroit and Cleveland have suffered near economic collapse due to a decline inmanufacturing.• Some of the region’s largest cities, such as New York, Toronto, and Chicago,continue to prosper because of their strong service industries that connect themto regional and global economies.• After World War II, industrial jobs drew millions of rural men and women, bothblack and white, from the South to the industrial core. Many of their sons anddaughters, now without work and without funds to retrain or relocate

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Cree First Nation,”Québec extends north into areasaround Hudson Bay that are rich intimber and mineral deposits (iron ore,copper, and oil) and are also thehomelands of many First Nationgroups (see Figure 2.41B).• Although these are the native lands ofthe Algonquin-speaking First Nations(primarily Cree), the Québecprovincial government has legalcontrol of resources in order to runmineral-processing plants.• The First Nation people protested theclear-cutting of their forests for paperproduction, the diversion of pristinerivers for hydropower dams

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The Quiet Revolution,”• The Québécois resisted the disparagement of French culture andefforts to block access to education and economic participation. Inthe 1970s, the Québécois pushed for more autonomy from Canadaand then for outright national sovereignty (separation from Canada).• By 2009, a new, more articulate and less radical movement hademerged among young adults, seeking Québécois control over allmanner of social policies and even over foreign policy. Specifically

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Quebec,”is the most culturally distinct subregion in all of North America.• The Québécois are sensitive to discrimination in Canada and periodically lobbyactively for sovereignty.• In Québec there is disagreement between the First Nation population (Cree) andthe Québécois over development of the subregion’s rich oil and mineralresources, but there is large public support for energy independence.• In the seventeenth century, France encouraged its citizens to settle in Canada.By 1760, there were 65,000 French settlers in Canada.• Through the first half of the twentieth century, Québec remained a land offarmers eking out a living on poor soils similar to those of New England and theAtlantic Provinces, growing only enough food to support their families. AfterWorld War II, Québec’s economy grew steadily, propelled by increasing demandfor the natural resources of northern Québec, such as timber, iron ore

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strong human resources,”New England today thrives on service- and knowledge-based industries thatrequire skilled and educated workers.• The Boston area has capitalized on its supply of university graduates to becomeNorth America’s second-most-important high-technology center, afterCalifornia’s Silicon Valley.• Although cities (such as Boston, Providence, and Hartford) have long beenimportant in the region

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