From Dissent, is there still a South? And does it matter? A review of The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South by Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston; Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics by Earl Black and Merle Black; Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South by Thomas F. Schaller; The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South by Matthew D. Lassiter; and White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism by Kevin Kruse. Whatever combination of factors is responsible, the remarkable death of Dixie America will have powerful implications for years. An unholy alliance: Across the Deep South, religion, culture and politics collide to make “abortion” a dirty word. Adventures up South: A review of Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South by Roy Blount and Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School, 1970 by Huston Diehl.
