As a child growing up in Texas, which you may or may not consider part of "The South", I remember my mom and dad making chili and cornbread for us three kids once a week. My mom would make a huge pot of chili, my dad would make the cornbread from scratch in a cast iron skillet. Both parents using the recipes of their mothers and grandmothers that fed them. My parents rarely cooked together. They had very opposite work...
