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Conversation flows cheeringly, for the southern gentleman has a particular tact in making a guest happy. After dinner you are urged to pass the afternoon and night, and if you are a gentleman in manners and information, your host will be in reality highly gratified by your so doing. Such is the character of southern hospitality. [4]
During the Antebellum period the culture of the Southern aristocracy was, according to some historians, loosely codified as a chivalric Southern code, emphasizing the quasi-feudal ability of a Southern gentleman, or Cavalier, [a] to control his dependents, including both white family members and black chattel slaves. [2]
Older Southern American English is a diverse set of English dialects of the Southern United States spoken most widely up until the American Civil War of the 1860s, gradually transforming among its White speakers—possibly first due to postwar economy-driven migrations—up until the mid-20th century. [1]
There’s a reason Paul Wall is called “The People’s Champ.” Several, actually. Not only is the Houston rap icon a Southern gentleman, but he also truly cares about his community and the ...
Southern gentlemen are also expected to be chivalrous toward women, in words and deeds. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Although "culture of honor" qualities have generally been associated with men in the southern United States, women in the region have also been involved, and even exhibited some of the same qualities.
A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South (1949) Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South (1941) Cobb, James C. Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity (2005) Fischer, D. H. Albion's seed: Four British folkways in America Oxford University Press 1989
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Dogs feature prominently in Southern life and language. A dog that looks fierce but is really gentle wouldn’t bite a biscuit. If there’s no way a plan can work, that dog won’t hunt.