Today this region is still mostly rural, but is developing urban areas, such as cities like Birmingham and Huntsville attracting outsiders for work. Other popular sports in the South include golf (which can be played almost year-round because of the South's mild climate), fishing, soccer (which is the fastest growing sport in the South[citation needed]), and hunting wild game. - Synonym", "Massive Resistance - Virginia Museum of History & Culture", "Will Northern Virginia Become the 51st State? From its many cultural influences, the South developed its own unique customs, dialects, arts, literature, cuisine, dance, and music. [85], Many southern dishes are common in the state; biscuits and sausage gravy, chicken and dumplings, sweet tea, cornbread and beans and condiments such as cole slaw and chow chow accompany barbecued meats. For instance, pro-Confederate governments were established in what is now Arizona and New Mexico during the Civil War and, at one point, southern California was on the cusp of breaking away from northern California and joining the Confederacy. South Georgia has a large Irish presence, the ancestors of whom were largely at one time Roman Catholic; however, many were converted to various Protestant sects due to the lack of a missionary presence of the Catholic Church in the 18th and 19th centuries. [10] Before the American Revolution, the term was applied by the English, as a derogatory epithet for the non-elite settlers of the southern backcountry. [116], The national stereotype of the South in 1917 can be glimpsed in a study of tobacco usage in the late 19th century written by a Northern historian who paid close attention to class and gender:[117]. The region is very similar to the neighboring West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. [citation needed], Since the early 19th century, Southerners have been the subject of stereotypes, epithets and ridicule. "I think you're beautiful! The election resulted in reporters swarming into Carter's small southern town of Plains, Georgia. "[20], After the Revolution, the Anglican Church of England was disestablished (meaning it no longer received local tax money) and was reorganized as the nationalised Protestant Episcopal Church of the USA. [5] In the 17th century, most were of Southern English origins, mostly from regions such as Kent, East Anglia and the West Country who settled mostly on the coastal regions of the South but pushed as far inland as the Appalachian mountains by the 18th century. Studies show that a significant minority of people in Northern Kentucky identify with the South. No Southern garden is complete without them. A stylish variant of country music (predominantly produced in Nashville) has been a consistent, widespread fixture of American pop since the 1950s, while insurgent forms (i.e. Conversely, some people seem euphoric while in a state of delirium. [44] Today, Mobile still retains some of its French traditions, such as having a large Catholic presence and annual celebrations of Mardi Gras, which first began in the United States in the city. West Virginia was the last slave state admitted to the Union. Emotional and behavioral symptoms often accompany delirium in older adults, exhibiting signs of agitation and anger. Hearty, creamy, carby, dreamythere's a reason we call it Southern comfort food. They went to states such as Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio, as well as Missouri and Illinois. [18], Part of the South is known as the "Bible Belt", because of the prevalence there of evangelical Protestantism. When English Prof. Anthony Szczesiul taught his first class on Southern literature at UMass Lowell in 2003, he asked his mostly Massachusetts-raised students to jot down a list of things they associated with the South and Southern literature. [25][26], Maryland, which was settled by the British, is historically Catholic[27] as well and many historians believe it was named after the Queen Henrietta Maria by Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron of Baltimore. ", Wilson, Charles Morrow. Today, this region is the poorest in the state and one of the poorest regions in the country. Dancing - for the love of Riverdance 3. Before the Civil War, also known ''antebellum,'' the South was associated with agriculture, while the North was known for industry. In the 1960s, Stax Records emerged as a leading competitor of Motown Records, laying the groundwork for later stylistic innovations in the process. Navajos and Apaches primarily hunted and gathered in the area. Before the Civil War, six of the counties included in this area had populations in which more than 25% were enslaved African Americans, the highest concentrations in the state outside the cotton plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Rock n' roll largely began in the South in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Whether it's spicy gumbo, fried chicken and biscuits with honey, sauted greens, or BBQ meat that falls off the bone the south has it locked up. Rank 9. University of Chicago Press. [63], Settlement of the Oklahoma Territory began as a direct result of the Civil War. [114] The hostile epithet "white trash" originated among house slaves in the 1830s to ridicule whites of low income or low morality. However, there is no single "Southern Accent." [119], Since the 1930s, however, Hollywood has used stereotypes of the South to contrast virtues of simple rural life, with the corruption that can be found in the city. Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith, eds. Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity. The South is well-known for having a way with words. [95] Many[which?] [citation needed] As of 2013, Catholics comprised 42% of the population in the New Orleans Metropolitan area based on numbers presented by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans. In response to the attacks of Mencken and his imitators, Southern writers were provoked to a reassertion of Southern uniqueness and a deeper exploration of the theme of Southern identity.[99]. Twentieth-century migration and business development have brought significant Jewish and Muslim communities to most major business and university cities, such as Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and more recently, Charlotte. Sweet Tea Sippin' It may have started with the heat. Their way of living and culture would differ sharply than that of the planter class. You grow up with that food and it is the stuff you will be craving for the rest of your life. Sure, this is mostly during the summer, but we need some form of relief! The study also showed that 84% of Texans and 82% of Virginians believe they live within the south. These cultural artifacts, which can also be considered aspects of material culture, can reveal a great deal about the society that produced them. They fashioned the nation's "Bible Belt. [69] These slaves were thoroughly integrated into colonial Virginian culture and brought their traditions from Virginia to the Deep South where they blended with Gullah and Creole traditions. Northern Virginia also connects to the emergence and expansion of the Northeast Megalopolis. It also showed between 80 and 90% of residents in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia and the Carolinas described themselves as southerners. They built the first synagogue in Virginia about 1791. The city of Charleston, South Carolina, has had a significant Jewish population since the colonial period. [39] This debate is influenced partly because the South is such a large region. Southern food is truly the best. Other, less known African American dialect groups are the rural blacks of the Mississippi Basin, and Africatown near Mobile, Alabama, where the last known ship to arrive in the Americas with slaves was abandoned in 1860. Another primary population group in the South is made up of the African American descendants of enslaved Africans brought into the South. German cultural influence continues to be felt in cities like New Braunfels, Texas near Austin and San Antonio[13] Much of the population of East Texas, Louisiana, coastal Mississippi and Alabama, and Florida traces its primary ancestry to French and/or Spanish colonists of the 18th century. Each summer they tend hydrangeas and crepe myrtles. Other distinct languages include Cajun French (Louisiana) and Isleo Spanish (Louisiana, see also Canarian Spanish). James Paul Allen and Eugene James Turner, We the People: An Atlas of America's Ethnic Diversity (Macmillan, 1988), 41. "The only thing on every student's list was 'Southern hospitality,' even though they couldn't really explain . Gaelic was spoken in this region into the nineteenth century. And no one knows that better than us Southerners! The Southern Renaissance was the first mainstream movement within Southern literature to address the criticisms of Southern cultural and intellectual life that had emerged both from within the Southern literary tradition and from outsiders, most notably the satirist H. L. Mencken. The state government belongs to the Southern Governors Association and the Southern Legislative Conference. The size and cultural distinctiveness of Texas prohibit easy categorization of the entire state into any recognized region. Although various states even cities and counties have dialect differences, research conducted in 2013 with adults and kids as young as 10 showed that Americans said they think people with Southern accents are not as smart as those with Northern accents. Italy's culture ministry says the discoveries shine new light on the religious life and rituals of the ancient Greek city. Most Southern gardeners brighten their yards with camellias in winter and with brilliant azaleas and flowering dogwoods in the spring. "Bless your heart" and "Take your sweet time" might seem like sympathetic phrases but they're not always. The variety of cuisines range from Tex-Mex cuisine, Cajun and Creole, traditional antebellum dishes, all types of seafood, along with Carolina, Virginia (which shares strong similarities with North Carolina) and Memphis styles of barbecue. Several southeastern languages have become extinct and all are endangered. The northern edge of the Ozark Plateau was settled chiefly by mid-to-late 19th century German immigrants, who founded numerous vineyards and wineries. M. 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[4], In the time of their arrival, the predominant cultural influence on the Southern states was that of the English colonists who established the original English colonies in the region. All the crops grown there today are corn, soybeans and wheat, for which the area was better suited than for Southern crops like cotton or tobacco. Gorn, E. J. Today, partly because of continuing population migration patterns between urban areas in the North and South, historically "Southern" larger urban areas, such as. [52] As of the 1980s, the only counties in the United States where over half of the population cited "English" as their only ancestry group were all in the hills of eastern Kentucky (and made up virtually every county in this region). 1. 1. Traveling preachers used music and song to convert new members. According to one theory, this is because when hens would get flustered, Southern . 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