Regionalism.
Regionalism has persisted in the United States in spite of social and economic mobility and telecommunications innovations that tend to homogenize culture and diminish geographic isolation. Studies of regionalism may be divided into two groups: those that emphasize material factors and those that emphasize ideas. The first considers the region as a form of classification that differentiates cultural traits geographically. These classifications identify culture areas, which become the basis for cultural-diffusion studies. Questions of regional identity may arise in such studies, but more often the analysis is limited to material culture and ... ...
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