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Author:	Peter Applebome	Edition:	1
Publisher:	Times Books	ISBN-10:	0812926536
Subject:	Social Sciences	ISBN-13:	9780812926538
Topic:	Ethnic & Minority Studies	Format:	Hardcover
Language:	English	Publication Year:	1996
Condition:	Like New	Special Attributes:	--

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Synopsis
An exploration of the contemporary American South, a region that has become increasingly influential since the Second World War.
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Length:	385 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	7.0 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	24.8 oz.

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As we move toward the end of the century, Southern values have become American values. Southern politicians lead both political parties, and the South has powered the rightward shift in American politics over the course of the past three decades. The South is far and away the leading area of population and economic growth in America. People in Michigan are listening to country music and parishioners in California are worshiping at Southern Baptist churches. New Yorkers are lining up to hear Newt Gingrich speak and militia members in Idaho look at Southern neo-Confederates as allies and inspirations. And while the nation wrestles with problems of race, ethnicity, and diversity, no place has grappled with those problems longer, with both tragic and triumphant results, than the South. Applebome takes us on a wild ride through a South that is both undoubtedly new and still shaped by old ways. We visit Montgomery, Alabama, where an aging and ill George Wallace looks back and realizes that he's won; Charlotte, North Carolina, where the go-go spirit of the entrepreneurial New South and a vibrant political progressivism live side by side; Nashville, Tennessee, where country music suddenly finds itself the most popular thing on America's radio dial; Honea Path, South Carolina, where the ghosts of murdered strikers still haunt the town - and labor relations - sixty-two years later; Cobb County, Georgia, where old racial issues play out in a new suburban setting; Wilmington, North Carolina, where school segregation is again an issue, only this time those in favor of it are black. Applebome also takes us to Selma, Alabama, where veteran civil rights activists gather again to remember the past andwonder about the future; to the Mississippi Delta, where neon-drenched casinos and gourmet catfish farms are neighbors to some of America's most astonishing poverty; and Columbia, South Carolina, where a growing group of Southerners believe that the Confederacy was more than a lost cause - it is one still worth fighting for. In a provocative exploration of the triumphant South--the region that increasingly defines American politics and values--the former Atlanta bureau chief of The New York Times illuminates the people, places, and passions of this influential section of the country--an area that has effectively decided the outcome of every presidential election in the past 30 years.
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"...[A] thoughtful and provocative book." New York Times Book Review - William H. Chafe (12/01/1996) "Southerners of all descriptions should be grateful to Peter Appleborne, one more Yankee transplant, for spreading the news and writing one of the best portrayals of the South in years." Washington Post Book World - Edward L. Ayers (01/26/1997) "Applebome's keen eye for telling details and wide-angle perspective on historical trends renders a fascinating, far-reaching portrait of the south--a must-read for students not only of southern culture's virtues and vices, but of the nation's as well." Bayley

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