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The NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA of SOUTHERN CULTURE
VOLUME 2 : GEOGRAPHY

Volumes to appear in
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
are:

Agriculture and Industry

Law and Politics

Architecture

Literature

Art

Media

Education

Music

Environment

Myth, Manners, and Memory

Ethnicity

Race

Folklife

Recreation

Foodways

Religion

Gender

Science and Medicine

Geography

Social Class

History

Urbanization

Language

Violence

2006 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved

This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.

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Set in Minion types by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.
Manufactured in the United States of America

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The new encyclopedia of Southern culture / Charles Reagan
Wilson, general editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor ;
Ann J. Abadie, associate editor.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: Encyclopedia of Southern culture. 1991.

Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:v. 2. Geography.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3013-0 (cloth : v.2: alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8078-3013-5 (cloth : v.2: alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5681-9 (pbk. : v.2: alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8078-5681-9 (pbk. : v.2: alk. paper)
1. Southern StatesCivilizationEncyclopedias. 2. Southern
StatesEncyclopedias. I. Wilson, Charles Reagan. II. Thomas,
James G. III. Abadie, Ann J. IV. University of Mississippi.
Center for the Study of Southern Culture. V. Encyclopedia of
Southern culture.
F209.N47 2006
975.003dc22
2005024807

The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1989.

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Tell about the South. What its like there.

What do they do there. Why do they live there.

Why do they live at all.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

CONTENTS
  • African Origins Populations. See
  • European Origins Populations. See
GENERAL INTRODUCTION

In 1989, years of planning and hard work came to fruition when the University of North Carolina Press joined the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi to publish the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture . While all those involved in writing, reviewing, editing, and producing the volume believed it would be received as a vital contribution to our understanding of the American South, no one could have anticipated fully the widespread acclaim it would receive from reviewers and other commentators. But the Encyclopedia was indeed celebrated, not only by scholars but also by popular audiences with a deep, abiding interest in the region. At a time when some people talked of the vanishing South, the book helped remind a national audience that the region was alive and well, and it has continued to shape national perceptions of the South through the work of its many usersjournalists, scholars, teachers, students, and general readers.

As the introduction to the Encyclopedia noted, its conceptualization and organization reflected a cultural approach to the South. It highlighted such issues as the core zones and margins of southern culture, the boundaries where the South overlapped with other cultures, the role of history in contemporary culture, and the centrality of regional consciousness, symbolism, and mythology. By 1989 scholars had moved beyond the idea of cultures as real, tangible entities, viewing them instead as abstractions. The Encyclopedia s editors and contributors thus included a full range of social indicators, trait groupings, literary concepts, and historical evidence typically used in regional studies, carefully working to address the distinctive and characteristic traits that made the American South a particular place. The introduction to the Encyclopedia concluded that the fundamental uniqueness of southern culture was reflected in the volumes composite portrait of the South. We asked contributors to consider aspects that were unique to the region but also those that suggested its internal diversity. The volume was not a reference book of southern history, which explained something of the design of entries. There were fewer essays on colonial and antebellum history than on the postbellum and modern periods, befitting our conception of the volume as one trying not only to chart the cultural landscape of the South but also to illuminate the contemporary era.

When C. Vann Woodward reviewed the Encyclopedia in the New York Review of Books , he concluded his review by noting the continued liveliness of interest in the South and its seeming inexhaustibility as a field of study. Research on the South, he wrote, furnishes proof of the value of the Encyclopedia as a scholarly undertaking as well as suggesting future needs for revision or supplement to keep up with ongoing scholarship. The decade and a half since the publication of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have certainly suggested that Woodward was correct. The American South has undergone significant changes that make for a different context for the study of the region. The South has undergone social, economic, political, intellectual, and literary transformations, creating the need for a new edition of the Encyclopedia that will remain relevant to a changing region. Globalization has become a major issue, seen in the South through the appearance of Japanese automobile factories, Hispanic workers who have immigrated from Latin America or Cuba, and a new prominence for Asian and Middle Eastern religions that were hardly present in the 1980s South. The African American return migration to the South, which started in the 1970s, dramatically increased in the 1990s, as countless books simultaneously appeared asserting powerfully the claims of African Americans as formative influences on southern culture. Politically, southerners from both parties have played crucial leadership roles in national politics, and the Republican Party has dominated a near-solid South in national elections. Meanwhile, new forms of music, like hip-hop, have emerged with distinct southern expressions, and the term dirty South has taken on new musical meanings not thought of in 1989. New genres of writing by creative southerners, such as gay and lesbian literature and white trash writing, extend the southern literary tradition.

Meanwhile, as Woodward foresaw, scholars have continued their engagement with the history and culture of the South since the publication of the

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