Oh, the South had another "defined and cohesive tradition", which was beating the @ss of Northern military formations which outnumbered them, and which had massively better supply capabilities.
And that’s why the south won the war. Oh, wait...
The other Southern tradition is losing at war. They lost the Mississippi River, They lost Vicksburg, they lost Fort Donelson, they lost Nashville, The lost Knoxville, they lost Chattanooga, they lost New Orleans, They lost Atlanta, they lost Richmond, They lost Gettysburg, they lost Shilo. On monument row in Richmond Virginia, the only man there with a winning record is Arthur Ashe.