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