Why stop at nine? Garreau at least doesn't divide 'Dixie' into two, and my point is that the notion that one can neatly sort "Negro Spirituals" and "White Spirituals" doesn't survive even a cursory reading of the genre's history.
Hey, even New England is more than six states in terms of cultural regions, even into current times, even if it still retains (except at the SW edge) a fairly strong provincial coherence. And that's not even touching language!
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