There are many differences between the "old south" and the "new south" before and after the civil war. Many of the changes that occurred were directly related with the civil war and the fight for the freedom of blacks in the southern society. In the "old south" southerners were especially arrogant and self assured, they also didn't do the work that made them money instead that was the slaves job. When the idea of having a war over slavery rose in the south many thought that it would be a quick battle that would be easily won, due to the arrogance of the idea that this would change nothing in their society while they fought they did not think of the things needed to win a war. For example, in the north there were mines and more supplies for guns and their bullets but in the south all there was was the assurance that they would win. As the war began and went on, at first, their didn't appear to be any changes except for those to the soldiers who were actually fighting. After a while the army was so far behind in men and supplies, as was the yankees, it began to show more and more that they were not equipped nor did they have the knowledge to fight and win a war. After the war or during the rise of the "new south", most everything was desolate and sad. Many houses and much land had been burned so that they could not wield good crops, also many of the animals that they had once had had been stolen by the yankees as they slowly progressed, winning many battles that made it so that they could do those things. Also, along with the "new south" came the realization to southerners that they would now have to bein working and living off the land themselves with what little that they had left and high property taxes imposed by the controlling army of each area. Now, many of the southerners, lost in a sense, learn to live with what they are given and to try not to show the army tht they are erally hurting due to less money and less hands to do the work that was once being done.