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I heard from a Bloomington museum docent that the Great Black Swamp was responsible for some of the patterns of migration into Indiana. Specifically, I heard that it prevented residents of the Northeast from easily traveling to southern Indiana during the heyday of frontier migration, leaving southern Indiana to mostly residents of the Southeast. This fact supposedly helps to explain the perceived cultural discrepancy between northern and southern Indianans. Does anyone happen to know whether there is any truth to this? 68.163.178.93 18:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)