When Black southerners moved to the North for better jobs and opportunities, they were forced to abandon their regional identity. In order to identify their southern identity, 1.3 million African Americans started migrating back to the South. Your attachment of the region is the southern identity regardless of where you are living. This attachment is one of the cultural characteristics that continue to make southerners distinctive in the larger nation. The new arrivals of college educated progressive black people obliterated segregation and the modern South was completely changed.
South had become Americanized in virtually every way. Racism in the south had lost its value as a national news story. Southern racism had grown close enough to …show more content…
It’s been almost 2 years since I started listening to country again and my perceptions of the South and country music has changed dramatically. Music was one of the South’s great natural resources and one of its most valuable exports. The folk music of the early South reflected the cultural influences of the region’s African and British heritage. The music mirrored the harshness of life in a poverty-stricken, race-divided, rural, and often violent region. But it also echoed the southerner’s faith, family and pride in the land. Music nurtured the growth of the region’s mythology, often with the help of outsiders, in which the South was seen as a land of romance and mystery as well as hardship and tragedy. The music industry became one of the region’s economic success …show more content…
Air conditioner affected the social and cultural development of the South and brought about great changes in everyday life. Before making its way into homes, Air Conditioning started out in textile factories, cotton mills, and tobacco factories. Air Conditioning helped with moisture control in these factories. Air conditioning officially became mainstream of southern life when it was started in a movie theater. Air conditioning made its way in retail stores, restaurants, barbershops, funeral homes, hospital buildings and taverns across the region.
The so-called "air conditioning revolution," then, was actually an evolution -a long, slow, uneven process stretching over seven decades. Southerners decided that air conditioning was part of the American standard of living, something we're all entitled to. Even the language started to change regarding air conditioners, what had once simply been a "hot day,” the meteorological jargon “heat storm” had suddenly turned into a menacing aberration. Despite the best efforts of government, and industry, the air conditioner has not conquered all. Among rural and working-class blacks, poor whites, and migrant laborers air-conditioned living was not the norm. On the other hand, nearly everyone in the region spends at least part of his or her life in an air-conditioned
South had become Americanized in virtually every way. Racism in the south had lost its value as a national news story. Southern racism had grown close enough to …show more content…
It’s been almost 2 years since I started listening to country again and my perceptions of the South and country music has changed dramatically. Music was one of the South’s great natural resources and one of its most valuable exports. The folk music of the early South reflected the cultural influences of the region’s African and British heritage. The music mirrored the harshness of life in a poverty-stricken, race-divided, rural, and often violent region. But it also echoed the southerner’s faith, family and pride in the land. Music nurtured the growth of the region’s mythology, often with the help of outsiders, in which the South was seen as a land of romance and mystery as well as hardship and tragedy. The music industry became one of the region’s economic success …show more content…
Air conditioner affected the social and cultural development of the South and brought about great changes in everyday life. Before making its way into homes, Air Conditioning started out in textile factories, cotton mills, and tobacco factories. Air Conditioning helped with moisture control in these factories. Air conditioning officially became mainstream of southern life when it was started in a movie theater. Air conditioning made its way in retail stores, restaurants, barbershops, funeral homes, hospital buildings and taverns across the region.
The so-called "air conditioning revolution," then, was actually an evolution -a long, slow, uneven process stretching over seven decades. Southerners decided that air conditioning was part of the American standard of living, something we're all entitled to. Even the language started to change regarding air conditioners, what had once simply been a "hot day,” the meteorological jargon “heat storm” had suddenly turned into a menacing aberration. Despite the best efforts of government, and industry, the air conditioner has not conquered all. Among rural and working-class blacks, poor whites, and migrant laborers air-conditioned living was not the norm. On the other hand, nearly everyone in the region spends at least part of his or her life in an air-conditioned