What Is the Significance of the Idea of Many Souths

question 11

Multiple Choice

What is the significance of the idea of many Souths?

• A) The fact that there were three subsections of the South that experienced uniform economic development contributed to the cohesion of the South.
• B) The contradictions of the South gave rise to competing myths, alternately proud and condemning, based on half-truths and prejudices that still persist today.
• C) Entrepreneurs capitalized on public fascination with the South by printing many scandalous and misleading accounts of the region, all of which are long lost today.
• D) The South has many discernible historical eras, although throughout each of them a single southern identity and culture remained.
• E) Countries that shared a warm southern climate tended to independently adopt similar cultural and economic practices.

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