Volume 34, Number 10 · June 11, 1987
The New New South
By C. Vann Woodward
Politics and Society in the South
by Earl Black, by Merle Black
Harvard University Press, 363 pp., $25.00
Reconciling prodigious change with stubborn intransigence is a familiar problem of southern history. Solutions are rarely brought off without some sleight of hand. On the one hand 'old' Souths (rarely lasting more than half a century each) continue to multiply while on the other a 'new' South is forever being proclaimed, celebrated, or deplored. The new one defined in the book by Earl and Merle Black, political scientists at the state universities of South and North Carolina, respectively, is the latest of the new Souths. It only began toward the end of the 1940s and succeeded the one that took shape in the early years of the century.
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