The South

– many people still associate with plantations and slaves
– they think of the Civil War, racism, Ku Klux Klan, conservative politics and segregation (oddělení)
– belonged to France and Spain
– France sold an area of 2 144 000 sq. miles ( Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North & South Dakota and Oklahoma )
– the plantations and slaves are gone
– cotton once called King cotton
– schools and colleges are integrated
– black people have won their fight for civil right
– some prejudice ( předsudky ) against the black people still exist
– Southerns are probably more racist than people in other parts of US
– suspicious ( podezdřívavý ) of Yankees, or Northerners
– has become very wealthy
– roots of Country music
– stars Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette
Nashville
– Tennessee’s capital
– center of country music
– many country music careers ( kariéra ) have taken off on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry theater, now park called Opryland U.S.A.
Memphis
– the largest city in Tennessee
– on the river Mississippi
– once center of the cotton trade
– M. L. King Jr. Was assassinated
– Graceland – the home of Elvis Presley, the mansion where he lived for 20 years until his death in 1977, in the gift shop you can buy everything

hillbillies
– in the mountains are their home, hill-country people
– poor farmers or coal miners
– least healthy, being overworked, ill-fed ( špatně krmen )

Atlanta
– at the end of the Civil War 90 % of Atlanta ( Georgia ) had burned down
– became the economic and the cultural capital of the Deep South
– airport is one of the busiest in the world
– many companies have their headquarters ( centrála ) there
– 1996 the Olympic Games were held here
– Martin Luther King Jr. was born here ( memorial to him in the M. L. King, Jr. Memorial Historic District )
New Orleans
– Mississippi river
– the birthplace of blues and jazz
– Dixieland jazz – the name given to the style that originated here
– Louis `Satchmo` Amstrong was born in New Orleans
– Cajuns – shorter term for members of New Orleans ( French-speaking community), descenated from French-Canadians who came in Louisiana in the 18th century ,beliving they were coming to ”Arcadia” ( = paradise )
– Cajuns cooking uses hot spices and a variety of fish ( from waters of the swampy Bayou)
– Jambalaya – a sticky rice dish with shrimp, sausage and chicken
– Gumbo – a peppery broth of crabmeat, shrimp, sausage, chicken, vegetables