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

Applebome, Peter

ISBN 10: 0812926536 / ISBN 13: 9780812926538

Published by U.S.A.: Crown, 1996

About this Item

Fine, first edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to Lawrence and Roberta Wright. Larry Wright is the Pulitzer winner from Austin. He usually stamps his books, saying it's from his library. And this book has that stamp. Good association value. The inscription says: To Larry and Roberta: A real Southerner and a semi-Southerner with thanks, respect and best wishes from someone still trying to figure it out. The Wrights donated the book to an Austin charity, where it was acquired.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dixie Rising: How the South Is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture
• Publisher: U.S.A.: Crown
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812926536
• ISBN 13: 9780812926538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

As we move toward the end of the century, Southern values have become American values. Southern politicians lead both political parties, and the South has powered the rightward shift in American politics over the course of the past three decades. The South is far and away the leading area of population and economic growth in America. People in Michigan are listening to country music and parishioners in California are worshiping at Southern Baptist churches. New Yorkers are lining up to hear Newt Gingrich speak and militia members in Idaho look at Southern neo-Confederates as allies and inspirations. And while the nation wrestles with problems of race, ethnicity, and diversity, no place has grappled with those problems longer, with both tragic and triumphant results, than the South.
Applebome takes us on a wild ride through a South that is both undoubtedly new and still shaped by old ways. We visit Montgomery, Alabama, where an aging and ill George Wallace looks back and realizes that he's won; Charlotte, North Carolina, where the go-go spirit of the entrepreneurial New South and a vibrant political progressivism live side by side; Nashville, Tennessee, where country music suddenly finds itself the most popular thing on America's radio dial; Honea Path, South Carolina, where the ghosts of murdered strikers still haunt the town - and labor relations - sixty-two years later; Cobb County, Georgia, where old racial issues play out in a new suburban setting; Wilmington, North Carolina, where school segregation is again an issue, only this time those in favor of it are black.
Applebome also takes us to Selma, Alabama, where veteran civil rights activists gather again to remember the past and wonder about the future; to the Mississippi Delta, where neon-drenched casinos and gourmet catfish farms are neighbors to some of America's most astonishing poverty; and Columbia, South Carolina, where a growing group of Southerners believe that the Confederacy was more than a lost cause - it is one still worth fighting for.

From the Back Cover

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.