Somehow this isn’t parody.
The only worthwhile culture from the south was created by either by non-whites, or very poor whites who were sharing notes with black or Latino people. Stuff like blues music and rock and roll are southern, but they’re from black southern culture. Southern hip-hop is fun too. Niche genres like horrorcore and arguably vaporwave can be traced to it.
The south used to pump out some pretty ok white writers though. Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, even Tennessee Williams. I doubt any of them would want to be represented with a confederate flag though.
Y’all will notice that southern white culture took a dive once there were fewer whites who grew up poor or working class and continued identifying that way into adulthood.
The music that bluegrass grew out of was made by black Americans, which brings us back to:
The only worthwhile culture from the south was created by either by non-whites, or very poor whites who were sharing notes with black or Latino people.
there are like cajun people. But most of the white southern culture were slavelords larping as anglo-norman chevaliers.
cajun people for a long time were in that grey area of being almost white people but not quite, kind of like Italians and Irish were. In fact one of my friends from high school had his grandparents arrested in the 1950s under segregation laws because the wife was cajun and the husband was italian.
One of my ancestors was a cajun and was also arrested and thrown out of new orleans for violating some kind of segregation ordinance regarding gambling or something.
I guess cajun people are fully considered white now, but that wasn’t the case for a while, like a bunch of them got sold into slavery when England took over French Canada
