Southern Hospitality

Source Evaluation People have come to the conclusion that Southern Hospitality is well and alive today. We have people traveling all around the country for vacations, visiting family, work, and much more; but do they really know what people of the South are really like if they were to come live here? Southern Hospitality is a growing myth that does not exist, and barely existed back in the days. Sure people were generally more civil and socially mannered, but that did not mean you could dub a whole Southern Region of the United States “hospitable”. Throughout my research, I have found multiple sources that agree with my view, and a couple that tend to praise the so-called “Southern Hospitality” and what a change it is from wherever an individual might be coming from. Although, I do not agree that Southern Hospitality exists, nor do Southerners display it if it does exist. Through each of my sources, they all fit into a different category that each display something different. One source consists of an unbiased, statistical view. Another source agrees with my argument and provides information that successfully supports my argument. Lastly, my final source opposes my argument and praises the liveliness of “Southern Hospitality”. My background source consists of various information about the South and how Southern Hospitality was developed. According to the source, Jacob Abbott, the author of The Rollo Series, was the first to bring up the idea of Southern Hospitality as he traveled down South in the early 19th century, experiencing the politeness of being fed food, sheltered, and welcomed by strangers to which he wrote a book about his travels called New England and Her Institutions. The source also goes on to explain the geography of the South and what states are considered Southern, as well as Southern Etiquette. Through reviewing this source, I plan to use it to describe where the idea of “Southern Hospitality” came from, and what Southern Etiquette mainly