What is the North? What is the South? Understanding Northern and Southern Culture in America What is Culture? Beliefs, language, traditions, customs of a group of people that is learned. When you hear of a Southerner, what are some characteristics? When you hear of a Northerner, what are some characteristics? Differentiating the North from the South. Location Differentiating the North from the South. Location Occupation North: Factories/machines Manufacturing Assembly lines Mass Production Occupation South: Plantations Cash Crops (Cotton, Tobacco, Rice, Indigo. Labor intensive work due to hand tools, and/or animal power. Slavery. Differentiating the North from the South. Location Occupation Ethnicity of people Ethnicity of People North: White factory owners (capitalist). Ireland(Irish), Germany, England 1 st Wave of immigrants. Italy (Italians), Russia, Greece 2 nd Wave of immigrants. Ethnicity of People South: White Plantation Owners. Italians and Germans(to build railroads). African slaves. Differentiating the North from the South. Location Occupation Ethnicity of people Lifestyle South: Religious Baptist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian and Methodist. Dialect Cuisine Soul Food Drink Cold drinks (Iced tea) Music Country, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues Union and the Confederacy Union States that stayed and was loyal to the United States of America. Confederacy States that seceded (left) the Union to create a separate nation.