Comments on: The South http://unrealnature.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/the-south/ Are you sure it's not real? Could you please define 'real'? Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:53:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dr. C. http://unrealnature.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/the-south/#comment-1719 Dr. C. Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:26:35 +0000 http://unrealnature.wordpress.com/?p=2857#comment-1719 Apparently the term "New South" has been around since the Civil War. I don't remember it when I was growing up in Chattanooga as a term of importance. I also don't remember any personal stigmata because I was from the South. Maybe it was there behind the drawn blinds of the Boston Puritans. As with many societies, for a while, the South was dependent on a single industry, textiles. Ironically, the loss of this industry to Vietnam and China is for the same reason that it came to the South in the first place, cheap labor. (Of course air conditioning played a part.) It will be interesting to see how things go now that the South has lost its clout politically. Apparently the term “New South” has been around since the Civil War. I don’t remember it when I was growing up in Chattanooga as a term of importance. I also don’t remember any personal stigmata because I was from the South. Maybe it was there behind the drawn blinds of the Boston Puritans.

As with many societies, for a while, the South was dependent on a single industry, textiles. Ironically, the loss of this industry to Vietnam and China is for the same reason that it came to the South in the first place, cheap labor. (Of course air conditioning played a part.)

It will be interesting to see how things go now that the South has lost its clout politically.

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