RACE AND THE DECLINE OF MAINLINE PROTESTANTISM IN AMERICAN CITIES: A GIS ANALYSIS OF INDIANAPOLIS IN THE 1950s

Abstract

all geographical terms bandied about by historians without any thought of their actual spatial implications. The fact is that history and geography are deeply intertwined. Every event, every person, every idea has a spatial component. Historians study the North and the South in the American Civil War. They analyse the Atlantic slave trade. They dissect the Westward expansion. They chart the political shifts in Eastern Europe or trace the rise and fall of Asian empires. In short, historians always study somewhere but rarely do they stop to consider the spatial dimension of those places. Put differently, historians prefer to speak about changes over time to speaking about changes