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Zonian
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A Zonian is a person who considers the Panama Canal Zone, a political entity viable between 1903 and the absorption of the Canal Zone into the Republic of Panama in 1979, 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.[citation needed]
Many of these people consider themselves to be Panamanian and U.S. citizens, 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. Others of them may have been American citizens born in the Canal Zone or who spent their childhood there. A significant presence of American canal workers remained in the Canal region until 1999.
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