... factors towards the secession of the south. This gemeinschaft society, with its emphasis on traditional, rural life, close kinship ties, a hierarchical social structure, ascribed status, patterns of defense, and masculine codes of honor and chivalry, persisted in the South long after the North began moving toward a gesellschaft society with its impersonal, bureaucratic meritocratic, urbanizing commercial, industrializing, mobile and rootless characteristics. Above ... ...

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