Northern Tier (United States)

Northern Tier (United States)

The Northern Tier is the northernmost part of the United States, along the border with Canada (including the border on the Great Lakes). [1]

It can be defined as the states that border Canada, but historians include all of New England in the Northern Tier, as well as states of the Pacific Northwest, because of the common culture they shared for more than a century.[2] Sometimes the area was called "Greater New England", because of the influence of its culture as migrants moved west across the continent. It had a consistent political culture until the 1960s.[3] Moving east to west (as the majority of population did), such states include: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington.

The terms Upper Midwest and North Country, New York are related to this term.

References

  1. ^ http://www.holidaystationstores.com/about/about.html
  2. ^ David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
  3. ^ David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

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