Mobility II

The Atlantic Ocean Acts as an extremely large barrier but one that is permeable. With the trade of goods and people from Africa, Europe, to the Americas much was transferred and lots was lost in the crossing through diffusion. This particular map Shows voyage routes from of Haast U Langzaam a frigate vessel from 1777 to 1778. More specifically if zoomed in on the paths you will see certain skull and cross bones designating deaths of slaves on particular dates. I have labeled two important ports the Elmina Slave Castle in Ghana and Fort Zeelandia in Suriname. This is an interactive map so by clicking on any of the icons you will be blessed with loads of data on each entry. We also have the Paths and category of Hurricanes in 1898.

Rice Mobility

Plots	East Coast US (widths)	West Coast Africa (widths)
1	Hampton Island 2500’	Field 1 (1 section) 1800’
2	Magnolia Plantation 2700’	Field 2 (large River Bend) 1000’
3	Field 3 6000’	Field 2 (one plot in a vast island of fields) 150’
4	Field 4 1000’	Field 4 (corner lot in dog leg of river) 250’
5	Field 5 3500’	Field 5 (set between two flows Narrow Field) 220’ x 550’

South Carolina Rice Field tended by slaves.


















Modern day South Carolina Rice Field

West African Rice Field Levee system

West African Rice Field










My Rice fields on the east coast of the USA are located in and around the Charleston, South Carolina area. Some fields are still in use others are from the distant past located around old plantation sites that are now just bodies of water. On the Western Coast of Africa I chose fields across the river from the most notable city of Bissau, Republic of Guinea Bissau. These fields are located around large rivers and small inland tributaries the fields are sectioned off into smaller plots. The expanse of the fields in western Africa is much larger than that of the east coast but the style is quite similar. I noticed that on the east coast the fields were not sub divided as much as the ones in Western Africa.You can see the diffusion by the location and shape of the fields from West Africa to the the United States East coast. By examining my embedded map you will see the location and distance of my fields from place to place and how they differ. Both locations of the fields are coastal along notable flowing rivers that are no doubt affected by the tides.Which is essential for the operation, and the style of fields that have been developed. This tidal rice cultivation was unique to West Africa and without the transport of Slaves to South Carolina and with out their expertise in the formation and infrastructure involved in using tidal cultivation the rice industry would never have thrived in low country South Carolina as it did.

Dixie Divided

I divided my Dixie into Regions based on geographic features that shape particular areas combined with economic drivers for certain sub regions. I compiled these regions based on common knowledge of areas around the south. Where we live and what we do shapes who we are although Garreau lumped all of Dixie into one area living through out the south we know how different each sub region can be. Some areas are much larger than others because of wide spread geographic similarity. The Gulf south having primarily oil and gas manufacturing with some fisheries. If you click on each of the colored regions it gives you a specified name.

• Brown - Gulf south oil and Gas 
• Orange  - Eastern Pines lots of ag forestry
• Dark Green - Ozark mountains hill country hick country
• Blue (western) - manufacturing - Aerospace and transportation 
• Light Green - Mississippi River Delta Agriculture and shipping along the river Fertile flood plain
• Red - Deep eastern Mississippi (the most over weight state in the union)
• Blue (central) - Nashville area country music scene
• Purple - Ohio river valley 
• Yellow (North Central) - Hilly rural Indiana
• Black - Coal country
• Light Purple - Appalachian Country this is a rural area with mining and some recreation due to the national forest.
• Yellow - Piedmont plateau between the Mountains and the coast heavily populated.
• Blue (eastern coast) - the outer banks/the southern end of the eastern seaboard tourism shipping lots going on shaping these people.
• Purple (central florida) - dominated by orlando and the disney land culture
• White - white sands beaches of the Florida huge economy based around the beach and vacationing
• Light Orange - North pan handle, south Alabama and Georgia. This is deep south territory.

Garreau's Dixie

Garreau's outline of what he thought made up the region of Dixie seemed to hit the nail on the head. Being from Louisiana when first examining his map of Dixie i was skeptical thinking he extended the vertical extent of the region to far north. After mapping the data that you gave us in class it seems as though the region Garreau mapped was quite accurate. Although i do not think that having the word Dixie in a business name perfectly describes a region it does show that people associate with that name farther north than i ever thought. Closer examination revealed that even as encompassing his region with the automotive data there were still multiple areas outside of Garreau's outline for example along Interstate 75 going north towards Dayton there were numerous establishments with the word Dixie in the name. This shows to me that they also identify as being somewhat in the land of Dixie and maybe when Garreau did his study he could not find any evidence of this in these areas. Also in Miami metro area there are also Dixie named businesses where Garreau included this area into "The Islands". Other data that would have been helpful defining this area would be the location of plantations that is a true definer of Dixie. Actually mapping this area that he describes as Dixie out certainly helped visualize what he was speaking towards as well as the data that we embedded on the map as well backed up his claim for Dixie. Although there is no definite border as we saw using the embedded data there is certainly a large part of the united states that believes to be in a part of the Dixie land. Getting a better since of region is important when defining areas such as this one because of the varied ways that it can be interpreted can change dramatically what you would include and not include.