The Resilience of Southern Identity Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People / Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Christopher A. (Christopher Alan), 1975-

Contributor:

Knotts, H. Gibbs.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Southern States.

Group identity.

Southern States--Historiography.

Southern States.

Southern States--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (149 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region's politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same time, many outward signs of regional distinctiveness have faded - chain restaurants have replaced mom-and-pop diners, and the interstate highway system connects the region to the rest of the country. Given all of these changes, many have argued that southern identity is fading. But here, Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts show how these changes have allowed for new types of southern identity to emerge.

Contents:

The roots of southern identity

Signs of the South

Southern identity by the number

Talking with southerners.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908514-0-6

979-88-908514-1-3

1-4696-5216-1

1-4696-3106-7

OCLC:

971952320