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 | | He spoke West Prussian “Low German,” he lived in a wooden frame house attached to a barn by a common ridgepole, his wife wore a fl kerchief, and his kinship network extended back to New Russia and into the American Midwest, especially Nebraska and Kansas. |
 | | Prairie historians, on the other hand, have noted how the independent farm family “made good” in an environment characterized by an abundance of land, low population densities, the wheat frontier, upward mobility from rising land values, cultural homogeneity within specific settlements, and relative isolation from the metropolis. |
 | | So different were such settings as southern Ontario and the prairie west that historians have argued that regionalism constituted a fundamental variable in Canadian history, and immigration historians, in particular, have suggested that regionalism mitigated against the development of pan-North American identities for any given immigrant or ethnic group. |
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