whats the real south?

[smoky_topaz]

One of my neighbors down the street moved from Georgia to Phoenix. Said it was for the "weather" Hmmm...She would never make it in Chicago or Minneapolis if she thinks winter in Georgia is that bad....

[navyboy26]

ok my bad. and yea thts a city and it is your opinion.

[navyboy26]

Most people consider the southern states those that were part of the confederacy. Thats all i was sayin. People go off the Civil war by what the real South is, and I was just tryin to get opinions sorry if it sounded offensive or anything.

[photobuff42]

Originally Posted by TexasReb

This is true, and from a cultural and historical perspective, makes the most sense. Some misconceptions exist concerning that nickname "Where the West Begins" as concerns Ft. Worth. It was never intended to mean anything like "The South Stops here." Anymore than St. Louis "Gateway to the West" meant one was leaving the Midwest. The "West" was not thought of as a single coherent cultural region per se (and it still isn't today), but simply a largely unsettled half of the country different in many ways from the "East."

In fact, most of those early cattle barons were former Confederate soldiers, and what the nickname really was intended to impart was that Ft. Worth was a Boom Town entryway to a new part of the larger South itself, one of new opportunities and all...the "Western South" if you will (to use that term again!) as distinguished from the "Old South" of cotton plantation country.

Those settlers in Ft. Worth, and far as that goes, that went on to settle West Texas at large were largely migrants from the southeast looking to get a new start, and brought with them their basic culture and folkways. Being in a former sister Confederate State, never thought of themselves as being out of the South per se. In fact, some records, and ads and such in early newspapers will often have references to something like "The Dixie Cattle Company" or whatever!

In Fort Smith, Arkansas, they style the town as, "Where the Old West Meets the New South." I just love that!

[aj661]

Take up this discussion in the proper forum. Thanks.
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