Everyday life and traditions
How many states does the Southeast region have?
12-Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
What were the main crops that sustained the plantation economy in the South?
Cotton was the foundation of the plantation economy.
How is the Southeast represented in movies and TV?
Through Southern Gothic dramas (The Help), small-town charm (Sweet Home Alabama), or negative rural stereotypes (Deliverance).
A festive celebration held on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, marking the end of the Carnival season and the start of the fasting, commemorating Jesus’ 40 days in dessert.
Mardi gras
What are the prominent values of Southeast people?
Hospitality/sense of community and conservatism
What kinds of music started in the South?
Blues, jazz, and country grew from the South’s history.
What are the main positive and negative stereotypes of the Southeast?
Positive: Southern hospitality, strong family ties, rich food, and musical creativity.
Negative: “Redneck”/uneducated, racist, overly conservative, overly religious, stuck in the past.
It remembers the story of Jose Gaspar, a pirate who supposedly terrorized the Florida coast in the late 1700s. People dress up in pirate costumes, enjoying parades, and drinking.
Florida’s Gasparilla Pirate Festival
What does the Mason-Dixon line refer to?
this was the symbolic line that delimited the north and south (the abolition of slavery from the south that permitted slavery) during civil war
What role did the Southeast play in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s–60s?
The Southeast was the center of struggles for racial equality, with protests, marches, and landmark events in states like Alabama and Georgia.
Whose voices are often marginalized or silenced in portrayals of the Southeast?
Black Southerners, Latino immigrants, Asian Americans, and working-class women.
Elvis Preley is a _____ singer
rock
Southern cuisine is the result of a mixture of cultures. What are those?
Southeast gastronomy blends African, French, Spanish, and Native American influences.
Which state is called “The New Hollywood”?
Georgia.
What stereotypes exist about the working class in the Southeast?
They are often shown as poor, rural, or “redneck,” while the realities of Black, immigrant, and farmworker communities are overlooked.
Dolly parton is a __________ singer
country
mention one dialect from the region and what it is about
Appalachian English-using "a" prefixes on verbs. e.g., "a-runnin'".
Tidewater Southern-a softer, more melodic rhythm and a tendency to drop the "r" sound at the end of words.
Gullah-Creole language.
What happened to the South after the Civil War?
It moved from farming to industry and machines.
How does media often stereotype the Southeast?
It’s often portrayed as racist, uneducated, overly religious, or stuck in the past, even though the region is diverse and modern.
Louis armstrong is a ______ singer
jazz