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Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party politics, one crop agriculture, white supremacy, cultural insularity, grinding poverty , somnolent cotton towns, and languorous rural landscapes has largely passed into history. Possum Trot and Tobacco Road have been suburbanized and how have Walmarts. As the regionss boosters insist, the nationss number0one economic problem has joined the great, booming sunbelt. For good or for ill, a new sense has been visited upon nearly every southern place. What elements caused such striking change to the face of Dixie?In this volume, nine widely known specialists in the history and literature of the American South search for the origins of this sweeping regional transformation in the period of the Second World War. These original essays address a cluster of related problems of enduring fascination for all those who wish to understand the ever-changing, ever-abiding South.Offering new answers to important questions, they address the Second World War as a major watershed in southern history. Did it drive old Dixie down? Did it set in motion forces that ultimately shaped a Newer South? Did it further Americanize the South by eroding traditional patterns of though and deed that once were fiercely defended by white southerners as our way of life? Was the postwar South less different, less peculiar and distinctive?

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Remaking Dixie
The Impact of World War II
on the American South
Edited by Neil R. McMillen
University Press of Mississippi/Jackson

title:Remaking Dixie : The Impact of World War II On the American South
author:McMillen, Neil R.
publisher:University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin:0878059288
print isbn13:9780878059287
ebook isbn13:9780585033044
language:English
subjectWorld War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Southern States--Congresses, Southern States--Social conditions--1865-1945--Congresses, World War, 1939-1945--Influence--Congresses.
publication date:1997
lcc:D744.7.U6R46 1997eb
ddc:975.8/042
subject:World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Southern States--Congresses, Southern States--Social conditions--1865-1945--Congresses, World War, 1939-1945--Influence--Congresses.
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Copyright 1997 by the University Press of Mississippi
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Remaking Dixie: the impact of World War II on the American South/edited by Neil R. McMillen.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87805-927-X (alk. paper).ISBN 0-87805-928-8 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. World War, 19391945Social aspectsSouthern States
Congresses. 2. Southern StatesSocial conditions18651945
Congresses. 3. World War, 19391945InfluenceCongresses.
I. McMillen, Neil R., 1939- .
D744.7.U6R46 1997
975.8042dc20Picture 2Picture 396-33266
Picture 4Picture 5Picture 6Picture 7CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
Page v
In Memory of
Charles W. Moorman
Page vii
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then Warsaw and Dunquerque and now the planter's not-yet-drafted son drove the tractor: and then Pearl Harbor and Tobruk and Utah Beach displaced that son, leaving the planter himself on the seat of the tractor, for a little while that isor so he thought, forgetting that victory or defeat both are bought at the same exorbitant price of change and alteration; one nation, one world: young men who had never been further from Yoknapatawpha County than Memphis or New Orleans (and that not often), now talked glibly of street intersections in Asiatic and European capitals, returning no more to inherit the long monotonous endless unendable furrows of Mississippi cotton fields, living now (with now a wife and next year a wife and child and the year after that a wife and children) in automobile trailers or G.I. barracks on the outskirts of liberal arts colleges, and the father and now grandfather himself still driving the tractor across the gradually diminishing fields between the long looping skeins of electric lines bringing electric power from the Appalachian mountains, and the subterrene steel veins bringing the natural gas from the western plains, to the little lost lonely farmhouses glittering and gleaming with automatic stoves and washing machines and television antennae;
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One nation: no longer anywhere, not even in Yoknapatawpha County, one last irreconciliable fastness of stronghold from which to enter the United States. one world: the tank gun: captured from a regiment of Germans in an African desert by a regiment of Japanese in American uniforms, whose mothers and fathers at the time were in a California detention camp for enemy aliens, and carried (the gun) seven thousand miles back to be set halfway between, as a sort of secondary flying buttress to a memento of Shiloh and The Wilderness; one universe, one cosmos: contained in one America: one towering frantic edifice poised like a card-house over the abyss of the mortgaged generations.
William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
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Contents
Preface
xi
Introduction
xiii
Morton Sosna
I World War II and the Mind of the Modern South
3
James C. Cobb
II The South and Congressional Politics
21
Dewey W. Grantham
III World War II and the Transformation of Southern Higher Education
33
Clarence L. Mohr
IV Southern Women in a World at War
56
Judy Barrett Litoff
V African American Militancy in the World War II South: Another Perspective
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