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Is There A More Distinct South? Comparing Key’S, Elazar’S And The U.S. Census Bureau’S Version Of The South Through The Lens Of The Affordable Care Act, Robert Christopher Kenter
Is There A More Distinct South? Comparing Key’S, Elazar’S And The U.S. Census Bureau’S Version Of The South Through The Lens Of The Affordable Care Act, Robert Christopher Kenter
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Most scholars agree the American South is a region with unique and distinct political traits. What is less clear, though, is just which states constitute “the South.” Are they the eleven former confederate states, as Key argues? Or are they the US Census Bureau’s version of the South? Or is Elazar’s version the “True South”? Since colonial times, there has been little disagreement on which states comprise the New England region, but scholars of the American South have never agreed upon a set of states that make up the South (Anderson & Baumann, 2016; Kinsella, 2013). The purpose of this …