Talk:Plain Folk of the Old South
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[edit]Is there really a concept called "Plain Folk of the Old South"? Or does this just exist on Wikipedia? It seems to be a concept created by the creator of this article, based on the title of a 1949 book. The only Googled results are to either this article (or a shadow of it), or to the 1949 book. Do any other scholars talk about this concept? Eastcote (talk) 23:32, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
- Better erad Carey (2001) for starters. yes indeed scholars talk about "Plain Folk" in the South. for example--look at the TITLES alone of these studies of the Plain Folk in the South before 1860 by different scholars:
- Bolton, Charles C. "Planters, Plain Folk, and Poor Whites in the Old South." in Lacy K. Ford, ed., A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction, 75-93. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005.
- Bruce Jr., Dickson D. And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain Folk Camp Meeting Religion, 1800-1845, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press (1974)
- Campbell, Randolph B. "Planters and Plain Folks: The Social Structure of the Antebellum South," in John B. Boles and Evelyn Thomas Nolen, eds., Interpreting Southern History(1987), 48-77;
- Carey, Anthony Gene. "Frank L. Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South after Fifty Years," in Glenn Feldman, ed., Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations (2001)
- Hyde Jr., Samuel C. "Plain Folk Yeomanry in the Antebellum South," in John Boles, Jr., ed., Companion to the American South, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 139-55 (2004).
- Lowe, Richard G. and Randolph B. Campbell, Planters and Plain Folk: Agriculture in Antebellum Texas (1987)
- Osthaus, Carl R. "The Work Ethic of the Plain Folk: Labor and Religion in the Old South", Journal of Southern History (2004) v. 70#4, 745-82.
- Otto, John Solomon. "The Migration of the Southern Plain Folk: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis," Journal of Southern History, 51 (May 1985), 183-200. in JSTOR
- Sherrod, Ricky L. "Plain Folk, Planters, and the Complexities of Southern Society: Kinship Ties in Nineteenth-Century Northwest Louisiana and Northeast Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 113 No. 1 (July 2009): 1-31.
- Wetherington, Mark V. Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia, University of North Carolina Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8078-2963-9.
- Winters, Donald L. "'Plain Folk' of the Old South Reexamined: Economic Democracy in Tennessee." Journal of Southern History 53 No. 4 (November 1987): 565-586. in JSTOR
Pretty impressive--all use "Plain Folk" and many use "Old South" so its current terminology. Rjensen (talk) 00:13, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
- Interesting. I haven't heard the term before. Maybe it's used in academic circles and nobody bothered to tell us "plain folk" about it. That's how a lot of labels go, I suppose. Eastcote (talk) 01:47, 4 March 2010 (UTC)