In the cultural geography of America, the region known simply as “the South” has been historically differentiated from what is generally referred to as “the North” by lines of demarcation that are as ideological as they are physical. As a physical divide, differentiation between the North and the South is marked most conspicuously, and is understood most conventionally, as the boundary of the Mason-Dixon line. Established in the eighteenth century to settle a property dispute between the Penn and Calvert families, the Mason-Dixon line took on additional significance as a dividing line in the nineteenth century when it became the separator between the free states and the slave states (Makowski 1989, 573). Less conspicuous, yet similarly discernible as a marker of division, is the perimeter of the former Confederacy. While now largely diminished in its significance, at one time this division acted as a determinant of political affiliation up to, and during, the Civil War. Designating Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia as independent from the Union, the boundary lines of the former Confederacy stand today as historical imprints − remnants of a secession attempt that split the nation according to the position and arrangement of state borders.