Why did the Southern states hold onto their British heritage (namesakes and aristocratic style) more so than the...

Why did the Southern states hold onto their British heritage (namesakes and aristocratic style) more so than the Northern states?

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Because they didn't. Go look at a map of New England, the placenames are all either British or Indian.

>New England
In his defense the Yankees renamed many things after the Revolutionary War.

Every state that was an OG 13 Colony has a shit ton of English town names.

Middlesex
Essex
Milford
Concord

etc. etc. etc.

Northern stares were colonized by English malcontents looking for a new life. Ergo they were of lower class standing and cared less for the ways of England. Southern states, excepting Georgia, were colonized by second sons and those of higher class standings, though not quite as pedigreed as actual nobles. Those in South sought to become a new nobility similar in stature and wealth as those of England and took great pains to emulate such a lifestyle, with large manses, "serfs" working the lands, European imported goods, and even a way of speaking copied from the most upper levels of English society. Non rhotic southern accents are simply upper crust English accents with a lilt.

They were aristocratic but that doesn't make them more British by any means. What the fuck?

>New Hampshire
>New York
>New Jersey
>New England

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They're new, implying they're better than their British counterparts. The North is about one-upping the British, while the South almost allied with the British during the Civil War.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion's_Seed#Four_folkways

This. The upper class in the antebellum South heavily sought to feudal English values while the North, influenced by both the Puritans and by early waves of non-Anglo European immigrants, was a more industrial society.