The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society

by John Shelton Reed, Edwin M. Yoder (Foreword by)

Overview

First published in 1972, The Enduring South challenges the conventional wisdom that economic development, urbanization, and the end of racial segregation spelled the end of a distinctive Southern culture. In this edition, John Reed updates the public opinion data to the 1980s and reinforces the book's original conclusions: Southerners are different and are likely to stay that way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807841624
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	08/01/1986
Edition description:	With a new afterword by the author
Pages:	171
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.40(d)

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Confirms the persistence of marked differences in attitude between white southerners and other Americans.—Jonathan Yardley, New Republic

Reed has written a stimulating book. [Readers] will appreciate the clarity of his argument, his vigorous prose, and the occasional flashes of humor which enliven his pages.—Journal of Southern History

An extraordinary book which should have wide appeal. . . . This is a book about the Southern mind, attitudes, and behavior, by a gifted young sociologist who clearly relishes both the style and the traditions of the South.—Public Opinion Quarterly