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  2. 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 ...

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

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    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.

  4. White Southerners - Wikipedia

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    The slaveholding elite encouraged Romantic "antimodern" narratives of Southern culture as a refuge of traditional community hospitality and chivalry to mobilise popular support from non-slaveholding White Southerners, promising to bring the South through a form of technological and economic progress without the perceived social ills of modern ...

  5. 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 ]

  6. Chivalry - Wikipedia

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    The pronouncedly masculine virtues of chivalry came under attack on the parts of the masculist and upper-class suffragettes campaigning for gender equality in the early 20th century, [Note 4] and with the decline of the military ideals of duelling culture and of European aristocracies in general following the catastrophe of World War I, the ...

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

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    Culture of the Southern United States by state (16 C, 8 P) Culture of Washington, D.C. ... Center for Southern Folklore; Southern chivalry; Christian fundamentalism;

  8. Henry Cavill has proven chivalry isn’t dead – but should it be?

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    Going back further though, it’s also rooted in the even more outdated concept of chivalry: a code of conduct for men based on the medieval values of fight-lovin’, blood-splattering knights.

  9. Category:History of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    The precise boundaries of the Southern United States are disputed. For convenience this category contains the history categories for all those states which are sometimes considered to be in the South, but it should not be taken as an endorsement of the broader definition of the South.