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The South includes East Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Post 1: #|Music Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state Tennessee. It is also home to the best musicians and instruments in the world. For more than 130 years, Nashville has become the world's music city.

Historic Venue, Ryman Auditorium has been around since the 1800's. As the 1800s unfolded, Nashville grew to become a national center for music publishing. The first around-the-world tour by a musical act was by the **Fisk Jubilee Singers** from Nashville’s #|Fisk University. Their efforts helped fund the school’s mission of educating freed slaves after the Civil War – and also put Nashville on the map as a global music center. In fact, upon playing for the Queen of England, the queen stated the Fisk Jubilee Singers must come from the “Music City.”

Before even the Ryman became known as the downtown home of the **#|Grand Ole Opry**, it already enjoyed a national reputation. Enrico Caruso, John Phillip Sousa and the Vienna Orchestra gave roof-raising performances there that earned the Ryman the nickname “Carnegie Hall of the South.” The Ryman’s unrivaled acoustic qualities continue today – it has received Pollstar magazine’s prestigious “Theater of the Year” award four times in the past ten years as the best auditorium in the nation to experience live music.

In 1925, the establishment of #|radio station WSM and its launch of the broadcast that would be called the **Grand Ole Opry** further secured Nashville’s reputation as a musical center and sparked its durable nickname of Music City. The Opry, still staged live every week, is America’s longest-running #|radio show, in continuous production for more than 85 years. It ignited the #|careers of hundreds of country stars and lit the fuse for Nashville to explode into a geographic center for touring and #|recording. The modern- day empire of Music Row, a collection of #|recording studios, record labels, entertainment offices and other music-associated businesses, populates the area around 16th and 17th Avenues South.

How the legacy continues ...

Nashville has also become a hub for pop, rock, bluegrass, Americana, jazz, classical, contemporary Christian, blues, and soul music. Rolling Stone recently gave Nashville the title of “Best Music Scene.” Artists like **Robert Plant**, **Kid Rock**, **Black Eyed Peas**, **Bon Jovi**, and **Michael Buble**, among many others, have come to Music City to write and #|record. Names like **Kings of Leon**, **The Black Keys**, **Michael McDonald**, **Keb’ Mo’**, **Sheryl Crow**, **Paramore**, **Hot Chelle Rae**, and **Jack White** have chosen to call Nashville home.

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Traditional Southern Cuisine Traditional food from The South includes many dishes you are probably familiar with. A traditional Southern meal is pan-fried chicken, greens, mashed potatoes, #|cornbread or corn pone, sweet tea, and a dessert that is usually a pie (sweet potato, pecan, peach, chess are traditional southern pies), or a cobbler (peach, or blackberry).



In Southern Louisiana, there is Cajun and Creole cuisine. Southern Louisiana is known for using hot sauces and they are the largest supplier of crawfish in the country. Cajun and Creole both share influences of the traditional cuisine of France, with greater use of rice. Both Cajun and Creole cuisine include many native coastal animals, such as crawfish, crab, oysters, shrimp, and fish. These seafoods were first incorporated into the South's diet and are still seen today in the various dishes of the region. Many states in The South are famous for their barbecue dishes. The barbecue of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee is almost always pork served with a sweet tomato-based sauce. A popular item in North Carolina and Memphis is the pulled pork sandwich served on a bun and often topped with #|coleslaw.

Post #2 FRENCH QUARTER OF NEW ORLEANS The ** French Quarter **, also known as the ** Vieux Carré ** , is the oldest [|neighborhood] in the city of [|New Orleans]. After New Orleans ( // La Nouvelle-Orléans // in French) was founded in 1718 by [|Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville], the city developed around the // Vieux Carré // ("Old Square" in English), a central square. The district is more commonly called the French Quarter today, or simply "The Quarter," related to changes in the city with American immigration after the #|Louisiana Purchase. [|[1]] Most of the extant historic buildings were constructed either in the late 18th century, during the city's period of Spanish rule, or were built during the first half of the 19th century, after U.S. annexation and statehood.

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 Nascar’s history is as colorful as the logo-emblazoned #|stock cars that have made the sport famous. Its roots go back to Prohibition when runners—people who delivered moonshine, a home-brewed whiskey distilled from corn, potatoes or anything that would ferment—souped up their cars so they could give the slip to the [|federal tax]  agents determined to bust them (think [|Dukes of Hazzard] ), according to David “Turbo” Thompson, an associate professor at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, who has also raced stock cars. “Runners built their reputations by outsmarting and outdriving the law,” he says. For bragging rights, he adds, they held informal races to determine which runner was fastest.  **Films From The South **  Southern films often confront issues such as segregation and violence, discovery, freedom, and destiny. One of the most popular films from the 1930's is Gone with the Wind, directed by Victor Fleming. It's a historical-romance set in Clayton County, Georgia. It focusses on the southern belle Scarlet O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh and her survival through the Civil War and Reconstruction.    <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2a2a2a; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">To Kill a Mockingbird is an American drama film directed by Robert Mulligan. It was based of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Price-winning novel. The film was realeased in 1962. It takes place the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930s. The story focuses on an honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, played by Gregory Peck. Atticus Finch puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Gregory Peck, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2a2a2a; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2a2a2a; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2a2a2a; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #2a2a2a; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Directed by Steve McQueen, 12 Year a Slave is a 2013 drama and an adaptation of the 1853 slave memoir about Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup worked on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before his release. While working on one of these plantations he is subjected to cruelty from a malevolent slave owner who believes he has a biblically sanctioned right to abuse his slaves.

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