LSU Geography 2010

Mobility is defined by The Human Mosaic as  understanding how and why different cultural elements move through space and locate in particular settings. In the readings of  North American Odyssey,    stimulus diffusion is discussed and exemplified through the expansion of rice farming techniques in Africa to the Carolinas and Georgia Lowcountry through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Many of the techniques, such as sluice gates, were carried over from Africa to the United States. The Atlantic Ocean acted as a permeable barrier by allowing the   spread of ideas through, while also filtering out certain methods of rice farming. Time-Distance Decay is also a reason for the spread of these ideas filtering out.  When examining the fields, I came across findings that the rice plantations in the Carolinas and Georgia Lowcountry are larger than the rice fields in Africa. I averaged the perimeters of the rice fields as well as their area in meters squared...

The map I created is a map of Garreau's "Dixie" divided into sub-regions based off Linguistic dialects. I created the sub-region names from an article in The Washington Post titled " What dialect do you speak? A map of American English". The map I was most influenced by was Robert Delaney's map of "Dialects and Subdialects of American English in the 48 conterminous states", where he named and separated sub-regions off of distinct dialects. For my map, I used his sub-region names and edited certain dialect names I thought could be changed. I changed "Louisiana" to "Louisiana/New Orleans" since the sub- region did not encompass Louisiana as a whole. These names are based off of geographic features of the regions, such as mountains or proximity to the coast. Names are also based off of the historical features of each sub-region. Taking this rough layout of sub-regions, I deeply dove into other internet sources researching ind...

Garreau's chapter on Dixie and the empirical evidence I have mapped roughly resemble each other. The highest compacted population of places named "Dixie Automotives" is within Garreau's boundaries of Dixie. There are some outliers I have previously deleted. Upon further inspection I discovered places in Canada being named "Dixie Automotives" due to being on a Dixie Highway, not for cultural reasons. In order to get a better understanding of where the boarder of Dixie is located, I could search for streets named after confederate generals or another empirical trait related closely to Dixie's cultural identity. This type of map is centered around formal regions. The Human Mosaic's definition for a formal region is described as culturally homogeneous and having one or more traits in common. On this map, we are mapping the trait of the term "Dixie". A formal region also has a core-peripheral and boarder zones. This is very prevalent in th...

This map displays the population of Vietnamese born immigrants in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. This map displays the lessening number of Vietnamese born immigrants as well as shows the sense of community the Vietnamese immigrants share. In an article, it is discussed that nowadays many younger generation Vietnamese are moving away to find opportunity elsewhere. This relates to the last map exercise by seeing a Vietnamese community see present where the backyard gardens were before Katrina. This shows their success in rebuilding.