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“Caste lines are as sharply drawn as they are in India,” said one zonian quoted in Suzanne P Johnson’s Brief History of the Canal Zone.

The photographs in “Zonians,” taken between 2011 and 2014, explore what remains of the former Zonian community.

"Being a Zonian is something to be proud of," said Richard Wainio, the former Port of Tampa chief executive who spent most of his life there.

I was born and raised in the Canal Zone and resent Diederich's interpretation of the Zonian life.

She became head of the Pacific Civil Council and has even traveled to Washington to plead the Zonian case before a House subcommittee.