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"The democracy they fought for": the postwar assault on Jim Crow -- "For us or against us": massive resistance and the civil rights awakening -- "The dominant psychology ... is no longer agrarian": from farm to factory and town to city -- "From a thousand streets in a hundred towns": how the civil rights movement "overcame" -- "The whole United States is southern!" the politics of backlash, North and South -- "A foretaste of the new America": the South rejoins the Union, and vice versa -- "Just what the more ardent Confederates always wanted": poverty, power, and the rise of the Southern Rim -- "A favorable business climate": the price of progress in the sunbelt South -- "I'm not a feminist, but...": women, work, and the problem of change -- "First and last a southerner": whites, blacks, and southern identity after Jim Crow -- "I wouldn't have it any other way": division and diversity in the contemporary South -- "The root of so many problems facing the country": why America still needs the South. |
