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    36 The country Cultural regions in the contemporary USA ‘Today's cultural regions res from varying mixtures of European antecedents, with Native-American elements, at their most noticeable, cepresenting one of several ethnic ingredients. The main American regions a ed concepts for understanding subdivisions of American cultae and society. Stl, US regions tend tobe les distince than those in older, more demos lecountric. ‘The European settlement of North America is celatively recent ond the population ade to the homogenizing effects of sportation, urbanization and t ny and goveenment. America also shows an opposing trend towards decentralization and heterogeneity. Among the factors that revel the patio erty are differing atitudes towards envisonmental protection, energy use, sexual orientation nd abortion. ncreasingregona The north-east “The north-east often seems to be the country. Stretching from Maine, south through Maryland and west to the border of Ohio, the whole region isknowa as densely populated, highly urban and suffering foom becoming postindustril [changing from older heavy industry to high-tech service economy). Infact, the north-east s arguably stil the nation's economic and cultural conte, and is two regions (New England and the mid- ‘Aiatic) rather tha [New England itself is often divided into two parts Southern New Engl (Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode (sand) has long hed a cultural impo ‘tance out of proportion to itssie, natural resources and population, Massachosets largest numberof early colonists from Britain and rapidly developed tons, cohesive communities aad an expanding population that 1eaced the rest of New England and the i nineteenth centuries “Americans trace several aspects of the nation's traditional core culture to southern New England. The original sete’ goal of founding a model ‘community that would nspire reform in England wae generalized to Americen lie that the nation has «special mission and abi est of the world. The region supposedly also bequeathed the country belieF in the sovealled Puritan work ethic the faith that hard work land authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson expressed central values that for overa hundred yeaes were taight in US school asthe foundation cof the entire nation's culture, Inthe schools’ popularized version, the American

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