East Coast expansion of,90-91
and education,14,259,277
and Far West,251
founding of,9,82-91
geographical area of,9,37,175
leisurely life in,260-61
Lost Cause in,265-66,303
plantations in,84,85,86,90,134,167,201-2,205,212,225,303political preferences in,187,193,204-5,302-6and Reconstruction,263-67
and Red Nations,302,305-8
Regulators in,109
and religion,13,264-65,303-4
and Revolution,115,122-23,133-36,137-38,140and secession,188,225,227,229-30,235slavery in,56,82,84,87-91,115,122-23,134-35,186,200-205,225,227sugar crops in,202,205,225
and westward expansion,166,173,175,195,200-207,212-13,214,224,225and World War Ⅱ,289,290
Delaware:
and Civil War,229,233,235
and Continental Congress,125
founding of,97
and Midlands,7,95,96
and New Netherland,6
and Revolution,122,132
and Tidewater,7,53,120,234
DeLay,Tom,293,307
Democratic Party:
and Deep South,187,193,305
and Greater Appalachia,193-94
and Midlands,187-88
and Northern alliance,298-301
and slavery,187,194,229
and social issues,299
and Tidewater,187
and Yankeedom,180
Denonville,Jacques-René de Brisay de,41,42Descartes,René,67
DeVoto,Bernard,249
de Vries,Margaret,71
Dewey,John,258
Díaz del Castillo,Bernal,26
Dickinson,John,82,132,141-42
Dixie:
caste system in,265-67,287,288,289,297,305,310and civil rights movement,274-78,299,304,305,306coalition of,9,200,263-66,294,303
and Democratic Party,305
Lost Cause in,265-66,303


