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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 add

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Remaking Dixie
• Subtitle: The Impact of World War II on the American South
• Author: Neil R. McMillen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 207
• EAN: 9780878059287
• ISBN: 9780878059287
• ID: 07417325
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Weight: 377 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 1997

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