Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Preface
The Three Souths
I. The Journalistic Eye
The Mind of the South and Southern Distinctiveness
The Times Looks at Dixie
Among the Believers
The Secret History of Civil Rights
The Smoke Never Clears
One Tough Lady
A South That Never Was
II. History and Historians
American Weed
Slaves View Slavery
Slipshod Totalitarianism
Southern Intellect
Southern Studies Abroad
III. Friends and Masters
C. Vann Woodward
Eugene D. Genovese
M. E. Bradford
IV. What They Say about Dixie
Of Collard Greens and Kings
Red and Yellow, Black and White
Telling about the South
The Imagined South
V. Six Southerners
Lady Propagandist of the Old South
The Man from New Orleans
The World's Best-Selling Novelist
Mover and Shaker
Hardy Perennial
The Southern Elvis
The End of Elvis
VI. Southern Culture, High and Low
Southern Laughter
A Cokelorist at Work
The National Magazine of the South
Carolina Couch Crime
VII. Southern Lit (and One Movie)
Taking a Stand
Portrait of Atlanta
Nebbish from Mississippi
Hollywood Chain Gangs
VIII. Reflections
The Banner That Won't Stay Furled
The Most Southern State?
Brits and Grits
Missing
He's Baaack
If at First You Don't Secede . . .
Party Down
Our Kind of Yankee
IX. But Let's Talk about Me
Mixing in the Mountains
Among the Baptists
Choosing the South
Sources
Biography
John Shelton Reed
