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SC still has a lot of Southern culture. And the same goes for NC which isn't on the level of Florida at all when it comes to this.
Once people from a particular state no longer identify with its geographical location then that's when you know outside forces have taken over. With Most of Flordia and a good chunk of VA that's the case, but in NC pretty much everyone from NC considers themselves southern.
I don't think the Southern culture is being diluted. Atlanta is a different type of Southern city it is more of an international city now. Nashville natives sometimes mention Southern culture being diluted but I rarely hear it, most people are too busy to care.
George Wallace was a Dem, too (but hardly a liberal), and Alabamians voted him as there governor more than once, and voted for his wife after ol' george died.
Not quite. Lurleen died 30 years before George. Lurleen ran because George was prohibited from seeking a consecutive term in 1966 but he was very much alive.
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Not quite. Lurleen died 30 years before George. Lurleen ran because George was prohibited from seeking a consecutive term in 1966 but he was very much alive.
George even went on to marry after Lurleen (Cornelia).
I've never understood why the Southern USA didn't form Its own country. I'm talking in modern times not Civil War Era. Evidently the region is not allowed to. Though I'm sure there have been petitions to do so thru time.
With that said some of the bigger cities, may have lost some of that unique identity. Mainly Miami So Fla region, and coastal SW Fla. Atlanta, Raleigh, Charlotte, Tampa and Orlando are very mixed now. You get outside of those regions its very Southern.
I think the identity of the South will remain, or it would have completely changed by this late date in time.
What a lot of people try to do today is conflate conservatism with racism. A conservative can be a racist but conservatism isn't about racism.
True, but modern american conservativism is racist for the most part.
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