Southerner Traditions

To this day, the South is deeply influenced by its past. The South has a lot of history particularly during the early 1860’s, during the Civil War. After the Civil War, there were many upset southerners who believed that their way of living was dominant to all of the other Americans. People who are not from the South may see all southerners as these people who are stubborn and close minded. Although, to the native southerner traditions and beliefs are valued enormously. Southerners tend to hold onto their past, especially their traditions and cultural beliefs. Some common traits seen in the South is that religion, manners, and community are all important and bring people together. In both A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor’s