Minding the South.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Minding the South -- The Three Souths -- The Journalistic Eye -- The Mind of the South and Southern Distinctiveness -- The Times Looks at Dixie -- Among the Believers -- The Secret History of Civil Rights -- The Smoke Never Clears -- One Tough Lady -- A South That Never Was -- History and Historians -- American Weed -- Slaves View Slavery -- Slipshod Totalitarianism -- Southern Intellect -- Southern Studies Abroad -- Friends and Masters -- C. Vann Woodward -- Eugene D. Genovese -- M. E. Bradford -- What They Say about Dixie -- Of Collard Greens and Kings -- Red and Yellow, Black and White -- Telling about the South -- The Imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady Propagandist of the Old South -- The Man from New Orleans -- The World s Best-Selling Novelist -- Mover and Shaker -- Hardy Perennial -- The Southern Elvis -- The End of Elvis -- Southern Culture, High and Low -- Southern Laughter -- A Cokelorist at Work -- The National Magazine of the South -- Carolina Couch Crime -- Southern Lit ( and One Movie) -- Taking a Stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood Chain Gangs -- Reflections -- The Banner That Won t Stay Furled -- The Most Southern State? -- Brits and Grits -- Missing -- He s Baaack -- If at First You Don t Secede . . . -- Party Down -- Our Kind of Yankee -- But Let s Talk about Me -- Mixing in the Mountains -- Among the Baptists -- Choosing the South -- Sources -- About the Author.

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