Culture of the Southern United States

throughout its history in the United States, still existing today. It began in 1866 in Pulaski Tennessee, during the era of Reconstruction, following the Civil War. An ex-Confederate officer by the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest founded it as a white supremacist group that focused on brotherhood and the good of their superior race, politically, economically, and socially. They sought to combat reconstruction legislation that hindered the power of the previous confederate states in the south. In…

to immigration, free labor and supported a federal government. Slavery was not common in the North and it was even banned in some states. The South’s agricultural economy was founded on slavery and cotton and they supported a government that allowed states to make their own rules. Southerners viewed the North and their views as them trying to destroy Southern culture with their industrialism and growing abolitionist movement. A major conflict between the North and South was over the expansion of…

In 2012, when the Premier of the State Council, Li Keqiang, said to the People’s Daily that, “Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of the cities. More importantly it’s about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment, and social security” (Bloomberg). A Streetcar Named Desire is a play centered in New Orleans surrounding the struggles between the Kowalski family and Blanche.…

Diverse and vibrant, the city of Valdosta is a vivid example of authentic southern culture. Traditional values like honor, hospitality, and personal independence meld in perfect harmony with the pluralism encouraged by a modern college town. While some aspects of historically southern culture will likely never be destroyed, the very nature of culture is not static, but fluid, and constantly evolving. There are many preconceptions about southerners, but the Valdosta/Lowndes County region has…

The New South was a great experience to analyze how unique the South is in the United States. I was able to view the South differently in actually experiencing in the South for myself and able to apply the content that…

Northerners and Southerners carried deeply held differences about the meaning of nationhood. For the South, the nation was only an alliance of sovereign states that had power independent from the federal government. To the North, the creation of the Constitution was the start of a nation with a strong federal government that overruled the states. These opposing viewpoints were the result of the different cultural identities and political institutions of the two regions, and were reinforced as…

The United States raised their people believing that power needed to be balance so that way any group wouldn't dominate the entire country. The southerners wanted to continue to deny the human rights of people because they wanted to have them as property, working for them and doing whatever they liked. They did all this because they wanted to run their farms and business cheaper than the folks ( people who didn't hold people in slavery). When people got tired of all that and wanted their human…

During 1803 to 1853, the United States almost tripled in her size. In the early 1800s, the land located in the west part of the United States was not developed so much. Even before the American colonies won their independence from Britain in the Revolutionary War, settlers were migrating westward. Western area had many sufficient lands to live because President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French In 1803. Many considered it to be uncivilized and underdeveloped…

accommodating for the large plantations that grew cotton and other agricultural products. When looking at the economic role that cotton played in the South we see that cotton was king. Three- fourths of all cotton produced in the world came from the southern United States. Many of the worlds textile factories relied on…

of the Southern United States Dialect Southern American English, more commonly known as the Southern drawl or the Southern accent, is one of the most immediately recognizable of the United States’ many dialects. The dialect can bring many different connotations to mind depending on the preconceptions of the hearer. Those with positive ideas of the South may conjure up images of hard-working, hospitable, family oriented people, whereas others may prejudge anyone who uses the common Southern term…