As far as the Southeast is concerned, I am only familiar with the conditions that were in effect after 1900. The old inhabitants I refer to were those people and their descendants that occupied the lands after the colonization of North America by Europeans. What this book proposes to do is give you a flavor of who the people are that work out there, what they do at work, and how they do it. I spent an entire career in their company and they are an extremely lively and interesting collection of free swingers.