Zonian
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A Zonian is a person who considers the Panama Canal Zone, a political entity viable between 1903 and 1999, his or her true home. It's frequently said that drinking the water of the Chagres River (which supplied much of the drinking water for the area) dooms one to forever seek to return.
Many of these people consider themselves to be Panamanian and American, although quite a few say that they are only American or only Panamanian. Many of them are descendants of the civilian American workers who came to the area during the early 1900s to work and maintain the canal. Nowadays many Zonians work at the canal itself.
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