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Where the planters extended their operations north and west, as in upper Louisiana, western Tennessee, Arkansas, and eastern Texas, Lower Southern features outline the area. The Coastal and Gulf plains were settled from the east, but the deltas of the Mississippi, Atchafalaya, Red, Yazoo, and St. Francis rivers received their populations from the south. As a result, interior Southern areas do not show the predictable gradations of uniformity from east to west that are found in the North and North Midland regions.
THE INDO-EUROPEAN ORIGIN OF ENGLISH C A LVE R T WAT KINS T he name Indo-European is given for geographic reasons to the large and well-defined linguistic family that includes most of the languages of Europe, past and present, as well as those found in a vast area extending across Iran and Afghanistan to the northern half of the Indian subcontinent. In modern times the family has spread by colonization throughout the Western Hemisphere. A curious byproduct of the age of colonialism and mercantilism was the introduction of Sanskrit in the 18th century to European intellectuals and scholars long familiar with Latin and Greek and with the European languages of culture— Romance, Germanic, and Slavic.
Before the War of 1812 the frontier extended in the north out of Pittsburgh and down the Ohio River and in the south out of the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina, across Tennessee and Kentucky along the Wilderness Trail of Pennsylvania’s Daniel Boone. Like other American dialects, the Midland varieties rose from a British-English base in Pennsylvania, but the social composition on the frontier was different. Six of the seven ethnic groups mentioned by Crèvecoeur did not speak British English before they arrived in North America.