Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Southern United States" in English language version.
[A]fter the 1950 census ... an interagency committee within the Department of Commerce compared the existing Census Bureau regions and divisions to other schemes of regionalization and assessed the usefulness of an alternative system ... it shifted Delaware, the District of Columbia, and Maryland from the South Region to the Middle Atlantic Division of the Northeast Region ... This suggested reclassification had its merits ... However, the new system did not win enough overall acceptance among data users to warrant adoption as an official new set of general-purpose State groupings.
[A]fter the 1950 census ... an interagency committee within the Department of Commerce compared the existing Census Bureau regions and divisions to other schemes of regionalization and assessed the usefulness of an alternative system ... it shifted Delaware, the District of Columbia, and Maryland from the South Region to the Middle Atlantic Division of the Northeast Region ... This suggested reclassification had its merits ... However, the new system did not win enough overall acceptance among data users to warrant adoption as an official new set of general-purpose State groupings.
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