(2) The historical geography of classical town names reinforces the notion of the primacy of New England Extended, in the cultural, social, and economic evolution of the nation, despite the paucity of classical terms in nuclear New England. It also strengthens the suspicion that this region may have been the source of most of the characteristics that make the United States peculiarly American. A practice originating and flourishing along the growing edge of the culture area that was clearly the intellectual pacemaker of the young Republic spread vigorously outward to the farther reaches of the expanding region. Eventually, like many another idea and innovation of similar nativity, only a few of which have been studied, it diffused throughout the country and became continental in scope.

（2）古典城鎮(zhèn)名稱的歷史地理學(xué)增強(qiáng)了在國(guó)家的文化、社會(huì)和經(jīng)濟(jì)演進(jìn)中“新英格蘭擴(kuò)展”至上的觀念，盡管在核心新英格蘭缺乏古典的地位。它也增強(qiáng)了這一地區(qū)可能是使美國(guó)特別美國(guó)的大多數(shù)特性的源頭的猜疑。沿著正在成長(zhǎng)的文化區(qū)域的邊緣起源和蓬勃發(fā)展的實(shí)踐，顯然是年輕的共和國(guó)精力充沛的向外延伸到達(dá)到更遠(yuǎn)的擴(kuò)展地區(qū)的智能的心臟起搏器。最終，像類似耶穌誕生的很多別的想法和創(chuàng)新一樣，其中只有很少已得到研究，它擴(kuò)散到了整個(gè)國(guó)家，成了大陸的范圍。