Southern History

Hello everyone, sorry it took me so long to post a new topic.

Since my project had several historical ties, I would like the topic to be about Southern history. I think the two most important events in changing Southern identity were the Civil War and the civil rights movement of the mid 1900s. The first quite literally changed the South. It took away a lot of the working men from both sides involved, but in the South these men were often the key members of their families. They provided for and protected them. When they died, all of a sudden the South had a radically different population, and had to adjust accordingly.

The civil rights movement is also an obvious one. The previous injustice was corrected, but in a way that shattered what Southern identity meant for many people. The government quite literally told them that they had to change a belief that had existed for quite some time. Not just change, but to stop believing it entirely. It isn't hard to see the literal ways in which it changed Southern identity, but it did other things as well. There were certain situations where the National Guard was deployed. I can imagine that to the tradition-oriented Southerners, this must have seemed like the Civil War all over again, with the "Northern aggressors" once again affirming what they wanted upon the peaceful South.

So what do you think? Either about these events, or others.