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southern hospitality. The words southern hospitality, the hospitality characteristic of southern people and sometimes considered the epitome of sectional hospitality, have been traced back to 1819, when a traveler from the North wrote in his journal, “The mistress . . . treated us to milk in the true spirit of Southern hospitality.” But the South was famous for its hos- pitality long before this, as it still is today, and the much-used phrase is surely older. |