(US) Someone from one of the states which seceded in 1861 and briefly formed the Confederate States of America, or, more broadly, from some neighboring states as well (but excluding geographically-southerly states like Arizona); compare the South.
“Even later it dawned on me that SF was considered antithetical to Southernism.”
“The coarsened sensibility that this now-dominant Southernism and Frontierism has brought to our politics is unmistakable.”
“Traditional Southernism espouses a faith in the constantness of Southern identity, in its inviolable intactness as a means of directly connecting the past with the present.”
“Pictures are shown of Captain Felix Hughes, organizer of the Sarsfield Southrons in Vicksburg, and Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne of Helena, Arkansas.”
“Pictures are shown of Captain Felix Hughes, organizer of the Sarsfield Southrons in Vicksburg, and Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne of Helena, Arkansas.”