Sentence:  Old <WSD>attitudes</WSD> are held more tenaciously in the Tidewater than the Piedmont ; so that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old South from the new , but with , of course , important minority enclaves . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways