The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism

More than one-third of the population of the United States now lives in the South, a region where politics, race relations, and the economy have changed dramatically since World War II. Yet scholars and journalists continue to disagree over whether the modern South is dominating, deviating from, or converging with the rest of the nation. This collection asks how the stories of American history change if the South is no longer seen as a region apart-as the conservative exception to a liberal nation. Book jacket.

ML: Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan. Author of The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (Princeton UP, 2006) JC: Assistant Professor of History, Emory University. Author of In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton UP, 2007)

Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: The End of Southern History	p. 3
The Northern Mystique
De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth	p. 25
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Civil Rights Movement outside the South	p. 49
Blinded by a "Barbaric" South: Prison Horrors, Inmate Abuse, and the Ironic History of American Penal Reform	p. 74
Imagining the South
Mississippi as Metaphor: Civil Rights, the South, and the Nation in the Historical Imagination	p. 99
Black as Folk: The Southern Civil Rights Movement and the Folk Music Revival	p. 121
Red Necks, White Sheets, and Blue States: The Persistence of Regionalism in the Politics of Hollywood	p. 143
Border Crossings
A Nation in Motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the Nationalization of the Metropolitan South, 1941-1953	p. 167
The Cold War at the Grassroots: Militarization and Modernization in South Carolina	p. 190
African-American Suburbanization and Regionalism in the Modern South	p. 210
Latin American Immigration and the New Multiethnic South	p. 234
Political Realignment
Into the Political Thicket: Reapportionment and the Rise of Suburban Power	p. 263
Beyond the Southern Cross: The National Origins of the Religious Right	p. 286
Neo-Confederacy versus the New Deal: The Regional Utopia of the Modern American Right	p. 308
Index	p. 331
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