Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture - Softcover

Applebome, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156005506 ISBN 13: 9780156005500

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1997

Synopsis

In “one of the best portrayals of the South in years” (Washington Post), the Atlanta bureau chief of the New York Times travels from catfish farms and neo-Confederate gatherings to casinos and country music festivals and examines the reasons behind the region’s growing influence. Index.

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Review:

Former New York Times Atlanta bureau chief Applebome argues that the South is the region which is increasingly defining the whole United States. The roots of the major national debates on conservative politics, race, guns and states' rights are in the South--debates which the South once was losing, but has now reshaped. In a chapter on George Wallace, Applebome traces the 1994 Republican take-over of Congress back to Wallace's racially charged campaigns that lost the white South for the Democratic party, changing the American political landscape. Applebome makes race the central issue, but also explores other southern influences like country music and Southern Baptism, and lets Southerners talk for themselves.

From the Inside Flap:

tive exploration of the triumphant South--the region that increasingly defines American politics and values--the former Atlanta bureau chief of The New York Times illuminates the people, places, and passions of this influential section of the country--an area that has effectively decided the outcome of every presidential election in the past 30 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0156005506
• ISBN 13: 9780156005500
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416