SOST 101 Midterm Study Guide Notes Reading John Shelton Reed The South What Is It Where Is It South is a shared concept vernacular region poor biracial and rural region some consider Southerners as their own ethnic group specific cultural and heritage sharing group that answer Hell yes when asked if they weather ability to grow crops to make money brought in African Americans and are Southern ongoing racial issues political views land of the cotton cause for racial demographics Deep South most concentrated form Lynchings common here and strong some urban Southerners now but poor whites and black populations keep average median income levels low statewide burglary and crime often parallel income levels now these poorer areas are more historically southern and cities more Swiss cheese analogy religion a huge influence music also sexism issues South took longer to deem women s suffrage add anti discrimination like North laws etc more Southern women hold typically female jobs than rest of US Southern families that moved took traditions with them esp Texas Oklahoma Dixie only left in confederate supporting places Appalachian South its own little cultural bubble now has its own institutions and colleges universities etc where it depends Where regional enthusiasm exists some say the main 11 below the Mason Dixon line SOST 101 in class search for what is the South http religions pewforum org maps select field and view map of US http www livescience com 27087 most least religious us states html percentage of very religious people this determines South bible belt http countrymusic about com od trivia tp HistoryofCountryMusic htm stems from Appalachian South 1910 s Class Notes southern exceptionalism place defined from shared heritage and cultural history these two are distinct and separate different from national narrative othering pointing finger at something different than yourself saying the other is a bad negative thing conservatism racism segregation etc blamed on the South othering it south different place since we know loss what it s like to lose a war on home turf rest of country knows no military defeat in that way microcosmic place where all aspects of American character on obvious display Reading Kate Chopin The Storm A man and a boy escape to a store to avoid a storm his wife invites an old friend into her home when he rides by during the start of the storm They get together and each tells their spouse nothing and the storm passes with everything apparently in peace Reading John Smith The Delights of a New Land and Smith Captured by Powhatan who could desire or want more than to discover new land help people both foreign and native do God s work build towns etc what better could a man do with his time Don t let your children become idle and brattish then overtake you and squander your money Teach them to make a living for themselves rather than beg for one believe me more than Columbus There is land here that will provide more than England in wealth and Smith himself will return each year to New England If anything Smith says displeases them or is untrue let them have his head build own houses ships gardens etc and live in pleasure with nature says there is opportunity for money and wealth can hunt fish sail for pleasure and profit speaks of building a Commonwealth with the abilities of all men whether they can hunt fish sail or not Captured Smith is captured by native people and kept captive in a tent he witnesses their ceremonies feasts and dances for three days he was then brought to Powhatan s court and tribesmen were prepared to beat him to death presumably with clubs and crush him with two giant stones all decked in war paint but Powhatan s daughter Pocahontas ran and encircled Smith s head in her arms and refused to let him be killed Two days later Powhatan took Smith to a cabin in the woods to be left alone then soon after Powhatan and his men entered and declared peace and a trade of two canons and a grindstone for land and consideration to be a son of Powhatan Smith was released and went back to the Fort The two made the trade and every so often Pocahontas with some attendants brought the settlers food without which they may have perished from starvation Class Notes Smith was America s 1st important literary myth maker last medieval man 1st modern man life an inspirational model for American success starts by traveling was a soldier and privateer government supported piracy gets knighted after beheading 3 turks in war Smith crest origins master with languages 1604 goes to England joins Jamestown project 1607 arrive at Jamestown has a fight with the aristocratic group on the ship they arrest him find out he is actually on governing council and so they release him he makes people work to live don t work don t eat liaison with Powhatan and other natives saves Jamestown at least 3 times 1609 Powhatan executes some of Roanoke colony relations with natives sour Smith has an accident with powder bag must return to England for medical attention can no longer father children never returns to New World turns to writing to immortalize himself prototype of modern American man corporate model for new land trade empire activities and actions make the man not his lineage expression of Southern honor Reading Thomas Jefferson Selections Productions mineral vegetable and animal Jefferson disagrees with a Mons De Buffon about the native people of the Americas Jefferson thinks they are brave and the same as white men would be if the were put in similar exercise heavy situation no less impotent that white men although they bear fewer children and are affectionate to children women so endure heavy burdens and are treated unjustly simply because in nature force rules therefore men prevail as the typically stronger sex says women appear to have found natural ways of abortion since childbearing can be an inconvenience and danger in the wild also famine is common so young often starve if there are too many points out that if a native woman marries a white man and lives as a white woman would she bears as many children as a white woman calls slavery of natives inhumane lack of hair is due to native culture to pluck excess hair since it likens them to hogs claims the natives are quite intelligent in fact story of chief Logan whose family was killed by whites He wrote a letter after the native battled and lost still saying he had no fear for them since no one would mourn his death Jefferson