Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century
since the end of World War II the American South has been massively
changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and
transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party politics,
one crop agriculture, white supremacy, cultural insularity,
grinding poverty, somnolent cotton towns, and languorous rural
landscapes has largely passed into history. Possum Trot and Tobacco
Road have been suburbanized and how have Walmarts. As the regions's
boosters insist, the "nations's number0one economic problem" has
joined the great, booming sunbelt. For good or for ill, a new sense
has been visited upon nearly every southern place.
What elements caused such striking change to the face of
Dixie?
In this volume, nine widely known specialists in the history and
literature of the American South search for the origins of this
sweeping regional transformation in the period of the Second World
War. These original essays address a cluster of related problems of
enduring fascination for all those who wish to understand the
ever-changing, ever-abiding South.
Offering new answers to important questions, they address the
Second World War as a major watershed in southern history. Did it
drive old Dixie down? Did it set in motion forces that ultimately
shaped a Newer South? Did it further Americanize the South by
eroding traditional patterns of though and deed that once were
fiercely defended by white southerners as "our way of life"? Was
the postwar South less different, less peculiar and
distinctive?
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