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Southern Living, September 1968 Perhaps there are better ways to spend our time than cheering for our college sports teams ‘til we’re blue in the face, but we haven’t found them yet.
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In her book Southern Women, Caroline Matheny Dillman also documents a number of authors who posit that Southerners might constitute an ethnic group. She notes that the historian George Brown Tindall analyzed the persistence of the distinctiveness of Southern culture in The Ethnic Southerners (1976), "and referred to the South as a subculture ...
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.
There’s more to good manners than “please” and “thank you.”
Furthermore, says Abbott: 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.
Sexual abuse of slaves was partially rooted in a patriarchal Southern culture that treated black women as property or chattel. [7] Southern culture strongly policed against sexual relations between white women and black men on the purported grounds of racial purity but, by the late 18th century, the many mixed-race slaves and slave children ...
Not only is there no accountability for white women, but there’s a particular way in which white women get all kinds of extra help in the system.” Can Karens ever change? In a word: Yes.