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combination of subcultures, helps impart to an area much of its special character and
behavioral design.” 29 As noted by him this is what geography is all about and this is what
this study is about. When all things are equal, in this case the land, what difference does
culture make? With the southern Anglos and the Germans both settling in a similar
location, one has the ability to look at “particular cultures” and cultural groups in an area
where no other group has made a cultural stronghold. It is possible to examine the
cultural process from its inception to and through the early urban building phase of these
two communities when they are relatively isolated from strong outside forces.
29 Wilbur Zelinsky, The Cultural Geography of the United States (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall), 76-77.
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