Feud Between North And South Vietnam

At the end of the Civil War, America faced the difficult task of uniting not only two separated territories of the United States, but also two races long separated by racism and culture. Devastated and embittered by the damage of the war, the South had a long way to go in order to achieve true equality between the former slave owners and former slaves. The majority of the South remained set in racist behavior, finding post-Civil War legal loopholes to diminish African American rights (Tindall & Shi, 2010, pp. 757-758). Southerners continued to marginalize Blacks in their behavior toward ex-slaves and the later African American generation,

You would be hard pressed to find any Southerner who does not know and understand the sentiment behind the statement, “The South will rise again.” The South is a region within the United States that does not follow the generalized ‘American rule.’ In an effort to identify what makes the South a distinctive region, one must explore the comparisons of culture, education, racism, religion, and identity of the South and its people to the rest of America. Through the use of a wide variety of statistics and comprehensive comparisons, it is possible to understand why Southerners feel it is important to protect and preserve their heritage from what they consider to be ‘attacks’ from outsiders. While the South has experienced many

During the Civil War, the soldiers of the Confederacy and of the Union often tended to look down upon one another. In order to be able to kill someone, the soldiers had to think of that person as less than human, or else the guilt could be unbearable. After the 1860s, Civil War enthusiasts gave the war a glossy, clean, glorified look and feel. Both the North and the South are often presented as noble men fighting for their way of life against slavery, or for

The South vs. The South by William Freehling is a narrative that focuses on the civil war that affected a vast number of Southerners who opposed the Confederacy regardless of whether they were white or black. These ?anti-Confederates,? as termed by Freehling comprised Slaves and Boarder state whites who together formed half the southern population and were significant to the Union victory. By weakening the Confederacy military, contributing manpower and resources to the Union and dividing the southern home front, the anti-Confederates made a critical contribution to the Union war efforts that hastened the end of the war leading to the Union?s victory. The U.S was not the only house that was divided; Divisions between pro-and anti-Confederates, white and black, and the loyalty of both upper and lower states to slavery contributed a lot to the downfall of the confederates. ?Divisions within the South helped pave the path toward war. The same divisions behind army lines helped turn the war against the slaveholders.?(p.10). William Freehling argues that more than 450,000 Union troops from the South, especially southern blacks and border state whites, helped in the defeat of the confederates. Further, when the southern Border States rejected the Confederacy, more than a half of the South?s capacity swelled the North?s advantage.

Even though, the civil war ended in 1865; we can understand the different dynamics of racism, ethnicity, and social class in America because the way that African, Indians, and Mexicans were mistreated do to the fact that they were consider a lower class. This period it was hard for humanity because of the way this beautiful human beans were treated. It was not mercy for the African Americans and Mexicans faced a system of extremely legal restriction, specially blacks people with the system knows as the Jim Crow, the violent and the constants abuse of people human rights and dignity were painful for the rest of humans, who believe in life. The southern oppression of white people it was hard because one can see the separation of people. This

One example of a Southerner's being hostile is the “Angry Planter” from the Adventures of Robert Smalls play. In the play, the Planter scorned a white Republican as a scalawag and blamed the Yankees, a name for northerners, for brainwashing the people in the South. (Smalls play, 17). The Planter shows that former Confederates like himself blamed the North for “brainwashing” former Confederates. This shows how Confederates in the South still despised northerners By trying to place blame on them. In addition to just complaining about the north, many Southerners like the Planter viewed “carpetbaggers” as people who came to make Southerners even more impoverished and miserable. One excerpt from the History Alive textbook said that angry Southerners viewed carpetbaggers as greedy people who came to the South to “fatten our misfortunes.” (History Alive, 316). This describes in further detail how to Southerners further despised the North after the reconstruction. Not only did they blame northerners for brainwashing former Southern Democrats but, they also blame them for their misfortunes. They saw “carpetbaggers” as greed hunters who had come to make the South even more miserable and poor. Overall this shows how the Reconstruction failed to reunite the North and South as friends but, instead it left them angry and

In a time period that redefined the nation, two completely different stories were unfolding within the two regions of the country. Shortly after the American Civil War, the United States took on changes the young country had not seen before and has not seen since. With the northern states thriving in an economy driven by industry, the south watched as their land quickly turned into lost wishes. This time period is known as “The Reconstruction Era.” As the Civil War was coming to a close, President Lincoln had already made plans of rebuilding the war-torn south. As a result of the 13th Amendment, very few southerners were fond of African-Americans. Due to the hatred that was instilled into the minds of the youth in the south, a new group was

I was raised by parents who grew-up in the south during segregation. My mother, in a small rural town South of Houston and my father in an urban, bustling city in Louisiana. They were both out of school before schools integrated and prior to individuals participating in civil right’s marches and sit-ins. My parents talked to my brother and me often about the times prior to integration, however never dis-heartedly. Unlike the history books, my parents spoke with a sense of pride about those times and discussed the sense of family and community that was shared on their street and neighborhood, the number of successful business that were black owned, the schools and how much each student was required to learn, and the feeling of pride and self-worth that they were made to feel.

Southern life bred a defense of honor and Yankees were mirror opposites of Southerners. Life in the South demanded grit and resourcefulness, working with one’s hands as well as settling differences the same way. “Southerners descended from “better stock” than Northerners.” (44) Men boasted of being able to whip ten Yankees and those that did not were deemed as cowards. “Union men were no match for southern steel.” (46)

There are two distinctly different and contradictory societies in Vietnam: Saigon and the rest. “Saigon and Vietnam are as different, almost literally, as night and day.” (para. 6)

Historians have often described the reconciliation between northerners and southerners after the Civil War as a process of selective forgetting. The shared Union and Confederate experience of courage-under-fire quickly supplanted the root causes of the war and the longstanding sectional acrimony between North and South in the public memory. As Michael Kammen suggested in his 1991 book Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture historical meaning is imbued with concern for the present. For many Americans, North and South in the late nineteenth-century, “present” concerns were economic progress and stability. Sectional discord and enmity stood in the way of rebuilding the nation, and prosperity required letting bygones-be-bygones. New narratives sutured from selected historical memories were crafted to expedite the national healing process and to appeal to the sentiments of northerners who romanticized the bucolic Old South and its aristocratic order. Although nostalgia for a pre-industrial past played its part in fostering reunion, Reiko Hillyer, in Designing Dixie: Tourism, Memory, and Urban Space, argues that it was the mutual economic interests of northern capitalists and southern boosters that were central to reconciliation, and shaping the development of the New South.

The American South, known for its religious patriotism stemming from its profoundly unique culture that has evolved through dozens of generations. Southerners are stereotypically depicted within subcultures, ranging from agricultural to soul, that typically define their personalities. Like many, my personal perspective has been facilitated by the environment in which I was raised; growing up in the affluent city of Brentwood, Tennessee, my rearing was bubbled by the expansive south. It wasn’t till recently, when I my fundamental ideologies were challenged by arguments created from facts and evidence that I began to sympathize with differing attitudes. My prior rational trailed behind strongly conceived emotions that stuck to stereotypically

Edward Ayers’ article, “What We Talk About When We Talk About the South” addresses the conflicting attitudes regarding the South and what individuals believe it stands for. The article does this by utilizing distinct points of view reinforcing his idea that the South, through its diverse perceptions, is not something easily categorized. According to this article, the South exists in the minds of many individuals as something “other.” From this otherness stems contradictory feelings of pride and resentment, from, respectively, individuals both within and without what can be considered the geographic confines of the “Southern Trough” (2). Subjective perception is key to Ayers’ understanding of the South, and it is prevalent in the ways the article engages with the South.

During the years surrounding and including the Civil War, people are assumed to have either supported the Union, or the South. Though the specifics were never as elementary as black and white: political parties, social differences, economic status, and the value of a persons’ life certainly were. Throughout the Union’s fluctuating capitol value, industrial growth, governmental development, population augmentation, and world status in general, African American’s were primarily seen as inferior to the majority population.

Throughout the development of the United States, there has been an obvious division between the North and South. This is because of the difference in the core values held by each of these areas. Still today, there is a widely pronounced shift between the North and South, because we do not share the same core beliefs. These values include a strong work ethic and racism being salient in the South and equality and democracy being important in the North. It is because of these different ideals that lead the way to the huge shift in culture within these two regions.