Culture of the Southern United States

Terror tactics are used by supreme groups of White Americans who want to remain in control of the black slaves. Woodward notes, “Racism was conceived of by some as the very foundation of Southern progressivism” (91). There are civil rights groups that are struggling to have equal platform for both the whites and the blacks, yet some of the noble whites do not accept and support the initiatives. This leads to a slow realization of the changes…

since the end of the Civil War, the same type of tumultuous political scene has continued throughout our country’s history in the South. This is a political culture that is marked by racial politics, poverty, and rural demographics. Despite this pattern, we are beginning to see a trend towards to the left in certain southern states. The Peach state has been particularly interesting throughout the 2016 Presidential election. Georgia, one of the thirteen original colonies, has seen a very unique…

status quo pre-Civil War deemed that African slaves were not citizens, but rather less than human. The very foundations of America legitimized treating slaves as fungible commodities rather than equal people. The earliest controversies of the United States focused on the value of African slaves. The legislative outcome of these controversies, the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787 ultimately sealed the fate of not only African slaves, but also any immigrant outsiders to forevermore be perceived as…

During slavery in the United States, African Americans were not treated with respect. For instance, Caucasian people had developed scientific theories to claim that they are superior to African Americans. Some of the Caucasian people that contributed to coming up with theories or ideas that Caucasians was superior to African Americans are Thomas Jefferson, Charles White, Oliver Goldsmith and Benjamin Rush. There were also many Caucasians people in the United States whose behavior reflects the…

In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, author Mark Twain attacks the corruptness of Southern civilization after the Civil War. Through Huck’s wild journey in helping a runaway slave named Jim, Twain ridicules numerous problems facing American society in the 1800’s to give the reader insight on the social horrors embedded in the culture and lifestyle of Americans in the South. In particular, Twain satirizes the South’s perspective of “civilization” within white society and the…

Gaillard, Frye. The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina 3rd ed. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. This mongraph is helpful because it discusses the battle of integration in Charlotte’s history. Gaillard begins her analysis in the 1950s when Charlotte chose to begin voluntary desegregation of its schools in 1957. However, like most “New South” cities, over the next decade it made extremely slow progression towards full…

in the mid-19th century was a powder keg waiting to explode. The division of culture between the North and South was at an all-time high and in the early 1840’s the population of the United States was drastically changing. Settlers were rushing westward to form new territories while Immigrants from Europe were leaving their countries to settle in the United States. This movement of people into and around the United States led to the furthering of disunion and political developments, because it…

The United State’s civil rights movement was at full swing in 1964, yet still only four-percent of Americans felt that racial problems were considered to be a challenge that the United States faced. However unmindful the general public may have been, civil unrest grew stronger within the African American community and like-minded volunteers decided to tackle the increasing challenge of civil rights with certainty. The disillusion of the American public was overcome with a series of civil and…

The conflict of The Civil War was between the Northern and Southern states of the United States of America. The Civil War is commonly known as “The War Between the States,” and was known to put brother against brother. This caused tension and division, not only among the states, but in many families as well. The northern states, also known as, “The Union,” were the more industrialized states with greater populations. The southern states, also known as, “The Confederacy,” were more agricultural…

true brutality of the culture of the “Southern chivalry.” In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. The Confederate government deployed “negro dogs” against army deserters and those men who resisted the conscription. To the author of one article in the Burlington Hawk-Eye in the spring of 1862, the use of “the blood-hounds of rebellion” against Southern Unionists…