The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds

by Grantham, Dewey W.

• ISBN13: 9781557287106
• ISBN10: 1557287104
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS PRESS

Summary

The South in Modern America is a lively and illuminating account of the Southern experience since the end of Reconstruction. In the twentieth century, as in the nineteenth, the South has been the region most sharply at odds with the rest of the nation. No other part of the country has as clear-cut a sectional image. The interplay between the South, the North, and the rest of the nation represents a rich and instructive part of United States history, illustrating much of the nation's conflict and tension, the way it has tried to reconcile divergent issues, and its struggles to realize its historical ideals. In this new treatment of modern Southern history, Dewey W. Grantham illuminates the features that make the South a distinctive region while clarifying how it has converged socially and politically with the rest of the country during this century.

Table of Contents

Tables, Maps, and Graphs	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
In the Shadow of Reconstruction	1	(22)
The Easing of Sectional Tensions	23	(37)
The Era of Woodrow Wilson	60	(28)
Politics and Cultural Conflict	88	(28)
The Great Depression and the New Deal	116	(23)
Regionalism and Reform	139	(31)
The Stimulus of War	170	(24)
Resurgent Southern Sectionalism	194	(30)
The Second Reconstruction	224	(35)
The Sunbelt South	259	(22)
The Nationalization of Southern Politics	281	(30)
The Persistence of Southern Distinctiveness	311	(21)
The South, the North, and the Nation	332	(11)
Bibliographical Note	343	(2)
Index	345