Sentence:  As a result, the perceived differences in economic systems and domestic institutions—as well as the moral characteristics associated with these systems and institutions—became “laminated onto the landscape” of the South, creating a “<WSD>mythogeography</WSD>” to be dissected and disseminated by Northerners made mobile by the war. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The myths and/or folklore associated with a place.