Sources and References
Joseph Waddell, in his Annals of Augusta County Virginia (1885) states:
James Kirke Paulding’s Letters from the South, written during an Excursion in the Summer of 1816. NY: James Eastburn (1817) states that the tuckahoe:
Paulding discusses the “Cohee” as hard working family farmers with high levels of self-sufficiency.
Rhys Isaac, in The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (1982) characterized these two cultures {tuckahoe/cohee} as split between a non-evangelical and evangelical practice of Christianity.
Ernest Sutherland Bates' American Faith: Its Religious, Political, and Economic Foundations (1940) states that Tuckahoe and Cohee
Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker's Old South: The Founding of American Civilization (1963) has a chapter titled "Tuckahoe and Cohee" describing the tensions between the two cultures.
Richard B. Drake's A History of Appalachia (2001) has a chapter titled "Backwoods-Cohee Society" and identifies the term "Cohee" as a self-referential word used by "backwoodsmen" who settled the western part of Virginia (now West Virginia) to differentiate themselves from the elite "Tuckahoes".
Elizabeth A. Perkins & John Dabney Shane's Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley (1998) states:
Perkins & Shane continue:
Perkins & Shane then summarize:
Gerald Milnes' "Play of a Fiddle", University Press of Kentucky 1999, ISBN 0-8131-2080-2, pps 67-69. describes tuckahoe and cohee cultures from the perspective of West Virginia, and relates folk songs from each culture describing the opposing culture's foibles in caricature.
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