The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism

Abstract

Introduction: The End of Southern History PART ONE: THE NORTHERN MYSTIQUE 1. De Jure/De Facto Segregation: The Long Shadow of a National Myth 2. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Civil Rights Movement outside the South 3. Blinded by a Barbaric South: Prison Horrors, Inmate Abuse, and the Ironic History of American Penal Reform PART TWO: IMAGINING THE SOUTH 4. Mississippi as Metaphor: Civil Rights, the South, and the Nation in the Historical Imagination 5. Black as Folk: The Southern Civil Rights Movement and the Folk Music Revival 6. Red Necks, White Sheets, and Blue States: The Persistence of Regionalism in the Politics of Hollywood PART THREE: BORDER CROSSINGS 7. A Nation in Motion: Norfolk, the Pentagon, and the Nationalization of the Metropolitan South, 1941-1953 8. The Cold War at the Grassroots: Militarization and Modernization in South Carolina 9. African-American Suburbanization and Regionalism in the Modern South 10. Latin American Immigration and the New Multiethnic South PART FOUR: POLITICAL REALIGNMENT 11. Into the Political Thicket: Reapportionment and the Rise of Suburban Power 12. Beyond the Southern Cross: The National Origins of the Religious Right 13. Neo-Confederacy against the New Deal: The Regional Utopia of the Modern American Right

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