... Case study: Southern US EnglishAmericans just simply know about Southern English, whether they speak itor not. To southerners themselves, their dialect is an important badge of theircultural ... period marked by the urban-ization and modernization of the South, with the military leading andindustry following. The South, formerly just the Bible belt, has become the sun belt, the site of ... between the weather in the North and South;* the “Mason-Dixon line” (the boundary between Pennsylvania in the northand West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware to the south, named after the surveyors...