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The Resilience of Southern Identity - Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People (Paperback)
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The Resilience of Southern Identity - Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People (Paperback)
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The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past
half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region's
politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the
near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has
increased its population manyfold. At the same time, many outward
signs of regional distinctiveness have faded--chain restaurants
have replaced mom-and-pop diners, and the interstate highway system
connects the region to the rest of the country. Given all of these
changes, many have argued that southern identity is fading. But
here, Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts show how these
changes have allowed for new types of southern identity to emerge.
For some, identification with the South has become more about a
connection to the region's folkways or to place than about policy
or ideology. For others, the contemporary South is all of those
things at once-a place where many modern-day southerners navigate
the region's confusing and omnipresent history. Regardless of how
individuals see the South, this study argues that the region's
drastic political, racial, and cultural changes have not lessened
the importance of southern identity but have played a key role in
keeping regional identification relevant in the twenty-first
century.
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