In Dr. Goodword's "A Glossary of Quaint Southernisms" the Southern dialect is respected completely in every way that it should be. Goodword classifies the dialect found in the South as a regional dialect along with Brooklyn and Black, and all of these must be respected and observed as correct. Goodword states "they are simply slight variations in the grammar of a given language that characterize the various regions where that language is spoken"(Goodword, Southernisms). The websites I visited about the South were fairly accurate about the accents and vocabulary being used. The vocabulary shown in the Goodword's article and in Ron Collins' "Southern Dialect Converter" is very accurate for the words I, and all Southerners, use. Also, in Collin’s website, advice is offered for touring the South. These comments or pieces of advice are very humorous, but only some of them are true. They show the culture of the South; however, this website stereotypes the South as a monolith of people who fight over almost anything and take offense to any wrongs done by Northerners. This is not true. In the South we are overall very welcoming to non-native Southerners, but we do take offense very easily when we are classified as a whole as uneducated and rowdy. Rosina Lippi-Green states “In contrast to the northern construction of intelligence which is closely linked to a high level of education, there is a stereotypical southern intelligence which follows from common sense and life experience.” This shows that unfortunately we are classified as not having as much education as northerners, but it also shows we, Southerners, have more applicable knowledge than northerners.
In Rosina Lippi-Green’s "Hillbillies, Rednecks, and Southern Bells" Bourdieu uses the term “strategies of condescension”. This is where a person with authority in language and social factors classifies one group from another. In this paper, Beckerman is that individual, and he classifies the South incorrectly spelled and illiterate in their speech. He also states the North as being correctly spelled and literary. This is just one view, and it must be respected, but the Southern dialect is simply a dialect. The Northern also has their dialect, and there are several more found in the U.S. None of the dialects are wrong they are just different ways of speaking according to the way the people are raised, and who they are raised around because that is how people acquire their accent and vocabulary.