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Mythic Galveston
Reinventing America's Third Coast
Susan Wiley Haedwick
The Johns Hopkins University Press
2002

In chapter 1, I argued that the significance of a geographic analysis of Galveston was to provide grist for defining a new culture region rimming North America's Third Coast. My findings lend support to Jordan's contention that a unique region exists, located on the extreme edge of the continent. According to Jordan, this region may extend from Chesapeake Bay to the Texas Gulf Coastal Bend. I have expanded the argument to apply to urban areas within this <new> region.

Jordan has called this place the "Creole Coast." Set apart from the mainland physically, culturally, and economically, this Tidewater region "is more closely linked to the adjacent West Indian island world than to the rest of the United States."