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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
Southerners know the importance of proper etiquette and good manners. It’s essential to treat everyone with respect and put your best foot forward in word and in deed. We start learning these ...
It is a term used by all social groups, although more frequently by people with a lower social status than by members of the educated upper classes. Furthermore, it is more common in the speech of younger people than in that of older people. [70] Like much of the Southern dialect, the term is also more prevalent in rural areas than in urban areas.
"Really, what drove it more than anything else is seeing the media stereotypes. With most media, you get one of two versions of the South: You sort of get the polite tea party — and I don't mean that in the political sense — genteel, hospitable South, or you get the "redneck" stereotypes. You never get anything in between. That's what ...
Hillbillies of all backgrounds loathe such pendejos, which is why nearly all of my Southern friends ridiculed "Hillbilly Elegy" and warned the liberals enamored with it that they were propping up ...
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Food figures highly in Southern hospitality, a large component of the idea being the provision of Southern cuisine to visitors. A cake or other delicacy is often brought to the door of a new neighbor as a mechanism of introduction. Many club and church functions include a meal or at least a dessert and beverage. Churches in the South frequently ...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Education (2011) online review; comprehensive coverage in 135 articles; Newman, Joseph W., “Antebellum School Reform in the Port Cities of the Deep South,” in Southern Cities, Southern Schools: Public Education in the Urban South ed. by Plank, David N. and Ginsberg, Rick (Greenwood, 1990), 17–36.