The South as an idea, the South and its distinctiveness was very much there even in the Colonial Period.

南方作为一个概念,指南方地区以及其特点,早在殖民时期就已经存在

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Ruralness is often used to explain the distinctiveness of Southern writing and art and so on.

一般来说,乡村气息通常被归结为,南方文学艺术的特色

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John C. Calhoun, one of the great intellectual architects of Southern distinctiveness or Southern sectionalism, and certainly of Southern States' Rights doctrine, was very much an American nationalist, at least in the early parts of his career.

约翰·卡胡恩,最重要的南方特性学,或南方地方主义知识体系建构者之一,当然也参与了南方各州的权利学说的构建,他是一个典型的美国民族主义者,至少在他职业生涯的早期是

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if I could hang your hat on one kind of Southern distinctiveness, perhaps above all it's fun to play with all these stereotypes and realize that if so many people were writing this way, from personal observation, yes, there must be something to all these differences.

如果我们现在好好思考一下南方的特点,也许首先,让我们想想所有关于南方的陈见,不难意识到,如果那么多人通过个人观察,写出的南方都大同小异,那么这些南方特点一定有其根源

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