Quantitatively delineating the Black Belt geographic region

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-18

  Webster, Gerald R ^a   Bowman, Jerrod ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Alabama; Georgia; Southern black belt

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL FERTILITY; URBANIZATION;

ALABAMA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 46649111733     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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