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  2. Culture of honor (Southern United States) - Wikipedia

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    The "culture of honor" in the Southern United States is hypothesized by some social scientists [1] to have its roots in the livelihoods of the settlers who first inhabited the region. Unlike those from the densely populated South East England and East Anglia , who settled in New England , the Southern United States was settled by herders from ...

  3. Southern chivalry - Wikipedia

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    Southern chivalry, or the Cavalier myth, was a popular concept describing the aristocratic honor culture of the Southern United States during the Antebellum, Civil War, and early Postbellum eras. The archetype of a Southern gentleman became popular as a chivalric ideal of the slaveowning planter class , emphasizing both familial and personal ...

  4. Culture of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    The culture of the Southern United States, Southern culture, or Southern heritage, is a subculture of the United States. From its many cultural influences, the South developed its own unique customs, dialects , arts, literature , cuisine , dance, and music . [ 3 ]

  5. Southernization - Wikipedia

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    The mean center of the United States population has moved south since the 1920s.. In the culture of the United States, the idea of Southernization came from the observation that Southern values and beliefs had become more central to political success, reaching an apogee in the 1990s, with a Democratic President and Vice President from the South and Congressional leaders in both parties being ...

  6. Southern culture of honor - Wikipedia

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  7. Dueling in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Dueling was a common practice in the Southern United States from the 17th century until the end of the American Civil War in 1865. Although the duel largely disappeared in the early nineteenth century in the North, it remained a common practice in the South (as well as the West) until the battlefield experience of the American Civil War changed public opinion and resulted in an irreversible ...

  8. Category:Culture of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Culture of the Southern United States by state (16 C, 8 P) ... Creole culture; Culture of honor (Southern United States) Cur; D. Dash Rip Rock; Bill Davis (musician)

  9. Honour - Wikipedia

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    Honour (Commonwealth English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is a quality of a person that is of both social teaching and personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valour, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.