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	Nine Nations of North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the book, North America can be divided into nine regions, or "nations," which have distinctive economic and cultural features.
		Approximate map of the Nine Nations of North America
		He argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant and that his "nations" provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nine_Nations_of_North_America (631 words)

	The Breadbasket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nine Nations of North America in a book of the same title, written by Joel Garreau, in which he argues that North America is divided not by state boundaries and national borders, but in terms of cultural divides.
		These cultural divides result in an apportionment of the North American continent into nine distinct territories— the "nations" of the title.
		During the Cold War, Ukraine was often referred to as the Soviet Union's Breadbasket, as an analogue to the North American Breadbasket.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Breadbasket (130 words)

	Pacific Northwest Culture and Economy
		A source from which one can extract a provocative description of the Northwest region is Joel Garreau's classic text, The Nine Nations of North America.
		The Northwest is a distinctive economic, cultural and biological region of North America.
		In the sixties "a thundering market suddenly appeared for all this...untrammeled beauty near population centers and the mildest, most temperate climate in North America".
	www.gonorthwest.com /Visitor/about/culture.htm (1281 words)

	EXPANSIONIST PARTY: Comments on Proposed Canadian Boundaries
		Garreau came up with the concept of nine incipient "nations" within North America joined internally by common interests and distinguished from their neighbors by a sharp divergence of interests.
		A radically different understanding of the regional dynamics of North America was set forth in 1981 by a writer [who then worked] for The Washington Post, Joel Garreau.
		Unfortunately, this map focuses on the current U.S., and one has to 'understand' that the borders of Ecotopia, the Empty Quarter, etc., extend northward.
	members.aol.com /XPUS/canmapcomments.html (1404 words)

	IT Conversations: Joel Garreau - Human Nature
		Joel Garreau blasted into national prominence in 1981 with the publication of his first book, The Nine Nations of North America.
		Nine Nations marked the start of what for Joel has become a lifelong obsession: To learn about Americans — who they are, how they got that way and what makes them tick.
		The book became a best seller and still is used today as the benchmark work on regional distinctions in North America.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail265.html (417 words)

	Amazon.com: The Nine Nations of North America: Books: Joel Garreau
		Garreau unpacks the journalists' quick-and-dirty definition of America's regions in The Nine Nations of North America, and the undoubted aging of some of his details are noted.
		The empty quarter will become the Saudi Arabia of North America.
		Nations are not defined by their interests and way of life, but rather an elusive mix of shared histories, cultures, and socio-political happenstances.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395291240?v=glance (2061 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Nine Nations of North America at Epinions.com
		He takes us to all Nine Nations and explains not only the boundaries but the ethos, and introduces us to the issues and the people that populate each of them.
		The most populated of the Nine Nations -- for now -- and the only one in which labor unions are a force.
		To the south is the nation of MexAmerica, stretching from Los Angeles to Houston and south to Monterrey.
	www.epinions.com /content_79204552324 (1145 words)

	Pacific Lutheran Scene, Spring 1998
		His 1981 book, "The Nine Nations of North America," a factual observation, suggests that the official political maps of the United States, Canada and Mexico bear little relationship to reality.
		There are actually nine nations in North America, Garreau said, that distinguish themselves by such common features as culture, climate, commerce and environmental concerns.
		Add to this "regionalism vs. nationalism" debate a whole separate level of the argument, one that questions which individual fishers actually have the right to pull salmon from the water.
	www.plu.edu /scene/issue/1998/spring/canada4.html (1124 words)

	Secession
		For America to have been the progenitor of the United Nations Charter only increases the magnitude of this violation of the human right of political self-determination, the center-pin of their Declaration of Independence.
		Since modern democracies are nation states, secession is now treated as an issue of national unity, and national identity: Lincoln was one of the last politicians who had to address secession as a classic political issue.
		The nationalists advocate force to preserve the territorial integrity of the nation, which coincidentally is also the demos, the political unit.
	www.optoutamerica.com /secession.html (3045 words)

	An Aussie in America - Land Size and Population
		For example, the foreign tourist is likely to come across America's National Park system, which preserves places of historical as well as natural significance.
		The land areas of both nations are of a similar magnitude.
		With images of an obelisk-type structure in mind, you might drive for miles on the lookout for the "monument" everyone mentioned, unaware that the surrounding landscape is the monument by American definition.
	www.aussieinamerica.com /geography/population.htm (1337 words)

	NorthWest
		Peripheral Canal: water wars between southern and northern California: north is wet while south is dry, but north consistently opposes the appropriation of water by the south.
		As southern population grows faster than that of north, the statewide vote will eventually favor the south.
		Values on conservation and growth creates much tension within the state, dividing the state into two distinct regions, north and south.
	www.geocities.com /~profwork/ia/west/nw.html (671 words)

	Great Valley Center : Programs : Annual Conference : Plenary Sessions
		The author of best-selling books Edge City: Life on the New Frontier and The Nine Nations of North America, Garreau is the nation’s foremost chronicler of how humans build cities that are the cornerstones, capstones and sometimes millstones of their civilization.
		Kevin Johnson, a 12-year veteran of the National Basketball Association who retired after the 2000 season, was raised in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, an economically disadvantaged area confronted with many of the social ills affecting inner cities across America.
		A student of global culture, values, and change, Joel Garreau offers the hypothesis that the 1990s, like the 1950s, set the stage for a social-cultural revolution now unfolding in the new millennium.
	www.greatvalley.org /conference/2003/plenary.aspx (429 words)

	London's terrorism support apparatus: environmentalism, indigenism, and NGOs
		Britain's insane intent is shown by the proposed division of the western hemisphere into 31 "nations," as per maps prepared by Joel Garreau, the Royal Dutch Shell-funded author of The Nine Nations of North America, and Yale University's Encyclopedia of World Cultures (Map 2 (PDF, 136K)).
		"Throughout South American, indigenous peoples are currently forming local, national, and international organizations to fight for their rights to life, land, culture, and self-determination." The chairman of the group, Sir John Thomson, is a former British ambassador to the U.N., and reportedly is currently the deputy director of the British intelligence agency MI-5.
		The United Nations' International Year of the Indigenous People (1993) goes even further than the World Bank to claim that the hideous underdevelopment of these peoples constitutes a model for all mankind.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/1995/2245_terror_support.html (1470 words)

	Think Locally, Act Globally!
		Kaplan, D. Two nations in search of a state: Canada’s ambivalent spatial identities.
		Strauss, W. Generations: The history of America’s future (1584-2069).
		Kennedy, P. The future of the nation state.
	www.aag.org /hdgc/www/local/appendix/appendixb.htm (315 words)

	Agenda - CSG-WEST & PNWER Annual Meeting
		Since the publication of The Nine Nations of North America, there has been a revival of serious and popular interest and writing on regionalism on a global and continental scale.
		“Future of The North American WEST: Three Nations, One Region&;
		The vast majority of the North American continent’s energy resources are in the western United States and Canada and in Mexico’s coastal states.
	www.pnwer.org /meetings/summer2001/ovm21.htm (439 words)

	Urban Survival Discussion Groups: The nine nations of North America
		Urban Survival Discussion Groups: The nine nations of North America
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	www.urbansurvival.com /discus/messages/13/85.html?1071849936 (50 words)

	North America announcement
		New York New York.) and Joel Garreau The Nine Nations of North America.
		The Geography of North America provides an overview of the physical and cultural geography of the continent.
		The back-bone readings will be from two texts: J.H. Paterson North America (9th ed.).
	www2.hawaii.edu /~matt/340/announce.html (164 words)

	World Regional Geography & Anthropology: Notes
		Introduction to The Nine Nations of North America
		The Nine Nations of North America, by Joel Garreau, has become a classic text on the current regionalization of North America.
		The attitudes, ethnicity, political outlooks, and other cultural factors separate this area from the rest of North America.
	www.online.masu.nodak.edu /divisions/hssdiv/meartz/online/intro_ninenations.htm (637 words)

	A Peek Through the Texas/Mexican Wall
		By 1981, one such writer, Joel Garreau, the author of The Nine Nations of North America, already had noted that culturally-, socially-, and economically-speaking MexAmerica was a reality and it began just south of Sacramento, California and swung down by way of Arizona through Austin and Houston
		After a few weeks here, it has become quite obvious that a majority of UDEM's student population is very aware of the importance of Mexico's newest treaties with other nations, especially the European Union.
		I don't mean the borderless manifest-destiny types of the 19th Century who pushed for and made land grabs as far west as California and Hawaii and as far south as Puerto Rico.
	www.rtis.com /touchstone/sept02/10.html (1861 words)

	a crank’s progress » where do you belong?
		I’m reading The Nine Nations of North America, a book I remember being talked about when I left high school, but for various reasons, never looked up.
		The Empty Quarter, the vast open spaces of the West, from the 100th meridian to the coastal mountain boundary with Ecotopia and north to Alaska, Canada’s Northwest and Yukon Territories, valued by residents for its mineral and oil wealth, and by non-residents for its unspoiled beauty.
		It may be a stretch to call a nation what’s commonly regarded as a region, but not that much of one: I think there’s a stronger sense of self in these region/nations than in others in, say, France or England.
	www.paulbeard.org /wordpress/index.php?p=1007 (846 words)

	HispanicOnline - Hispanic Heritage Plaza 2002
		In Washington Post writer Joel Garreau’s book, “The Nine Nations of North America” (Houghton Mifflin, 1981), he describes what going “home” felt like to a colleague who left a prestigious Washington, D.C., job to return to his quieter, smaller, original town out west:
		Every North American knows a place like that, a place where, on your way back from your wanderings, surroundings stop feeling threatening, confusing, or strange...
		But Texas, which is already getting the lion’s share of picks here, has a lot prettier places without Enron in them.
	www.hispaniconline.com /hh02/demographics_top_10_cities_ix.html (427 words)

	Think Locally, Act Globally!
		Garreau, Joel R. The nine nations of North America.
		Kaplan, David H. Two nations in search of a state: Canada’s ambivalent spatial identities.
	www.aag.org /hdgc/www/local/Reference.htm (292 words)

	The Fate of Nations - Unification News 6/2000
		America’s poor are wealthier than the Pharaohs of old—yet they won’t rest until they too have a DVD player.
		America remains the closest Earthly approximation of an ideal society.
		From the rustic South, to the industrial Great Lakes, to the sunny West Coast, America’s regions have many distinguishing characteristics.
	www.tparents.org /UNews/unws0006/carlson_Nations.htm (1371 words)

	comm.html
		On the second level of the school issued bookshelf in my room sits a book called The Nine Nations of North America by a Washington Post reporter named Joel Garreau.
		The book describes a North America where a person's nationality would once again say something about them.
		Under this scheme, each nation would be separated from others by the social and cultural differences of each area.
	www.trincoll.edu /zines/tj/tj02.03.00/articles/comm.html (769 words)

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		Banks and politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War.
	www.lib.ccu.edu.tw /aslc/aslc_class.htm (372 words)

	Kahle (1986) The nine nations of North America and values basis of geographic segmentation
		The nine nations of North America and values basis of geographic segmentation
		Kahle (1986) The nine nations of North America and values basis of geographic segmentation
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	www.getcited.org /?PUB=103390171&showStat=Ratings (100 words)

	The Garreau Group
		Radical EvolutionEdge City: Life on the New FrontierThe Nine Nations of North America
		From the Caribbean to the Arctic, North America behaves as if it were nine distinct economies or civilizations without regard to conventional borders.
		The world is going through the biggest change in 150 years in how it builds cities.
	www.garreau.com (89 words)

	E Unus Pluribum
		The Nine Nations of North America divides the continent into nine different nations.
		In the first decade of the twenty-first century, America was a nation deeply divided politically.
		When they dealt a catastrophic blow to the nation's capital and chief financial city, the beginning of the end arrived.
	sbarrera.home.mindspring.com /bs/cult/BSNNWars.html (450 words)

	Roadfood.com Forums - 9 Nations of North American Food
		I'm a big fan of the "Nine Nations of North America" by Joel Garreau, where he contends North America is really 9 regions joined by economic and cultural ties.
		Roadfood.com Forums - 9 Nations of North American Food
		Add in Florida and Arizona(maybe Texas too) with people moving from the north and bringing their tastes with them, like Chicago style Dogs in all parts of the country, or finding a Maid Rite in Phoenix, and that's what made me question food migration along with people migration.
	www.roadfood.com /Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6682 (326 words)

	First Nations Site Index...
		A student organization at the University of North Dakota, is committed to fighting racism and the systems which make it possible.
		NCIDC is a non-profit organization founded in 1976 to meet the social, educational, and economic development needs of American Indian communities and for the conservation and preservation of cultural, historic, and traditional resources and sites.
		The Squamish Nation Network - The Squamish Nation is comprised of Salish peoples who are descendants of the aboriginal peoples who lived in the present day Greater Vancouver area; Gibson's landing and Squamish River watershed.
	www.dickshovel.com /www.html (1990 words)

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