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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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Dixiecrats
Culture; American culture
Democratic splinter party in the South during the 1948 elections. Disgruntled by President Truman’s civil-rights initiatives and fearing loss of local control, 6,000 Southerners met in Birmingham and ...
Denver, CO
Culture; American culture
Denver (1998 metropolitan population estimate 2,365,345), capital of Colorado, emerged in the mid-nineteenth century as a center for gold, railroads, ranching and exchange for the plains and Rocky ...
rednecks
Culture; American culture
Derogatory term typically meaning ignorant, white and Southern. Although derived from reference to rural, laboring whites whose necks turned red in the sun, the term is now used for any lower-class ...
Cajuns
Culture; American culture
Descendants of French settlers expelled by the British from Canada in the eighteenth century these Acadians have developed a distinctive Creole society under subsequent regimes in southern Lousiana. ...
Scotch-lrish Americans
Culture; American culture
Descendants of the 2 million Protestant, mostly Presbyterian, emigrants from Ulster, the northern province of Ireland, who arrived in the US from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. “Scotch ...
punk rock
Culture; American culture
Descended from the sonic experimentation of the Stooges and the Velvet Underground and the glam performance of the New York Dolls, punk rock developed in New York City, NY at the CBGB club on the ...
gangs
Culture; American culture
Despite a long history of immigrant successes, accusations of gang formation often challenge new groups in American society. These stereotypes emphasize different lifestyles or opportunities, but may ...
