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Enough About the Disappearing South: What About the Disappearing Southerner?

Enough About the Disappearing South: What About the Disappearing Southerner? SC 9.3-Griffin 8/14/03 9:25 AM Page 51   ...................... Enough About the Disappearing South What About the Disappearing Southerner? by Larry J. Griffin and Ashley B. Thompson rofound transformations in the South since the 1960s have led many observers to sound the region’s death knell. Distinctive and exceptional no longer, they say, the region has been disap- pearing, vanishing, shrinking, and converging with mainstream P America for decades, a victim of relentless incorporation into mass society. In a brief but stark Time magazine essay published in 1990, Hodding Carter III, a former Mississippi newspaper editor transplanted to Washington, D.C., went even further, voicing the judgment that the South was dead: “ The South as South, a living, ever regenerating mythic land of distinctive personality, is no more. At most it is an artifact lovingly preserved in the museums of culture and the shops of tourist commerce precisely because it is so hard to find in the vital centers of the region’s daily life . . . the South is dead. . . . . What is lurching into existence in the South is purely and contemporaneously mainstream Ameri- can, for better and for worse.” Historian James Cobb reminds http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Enough About the Disappearing South: What About the Disappearing Southerner?

Griffin, Larry J.; Thompson, Ashley B.
Southern Cultures , Volume 9 (3) – Aug 20, 2003
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SC 9.3-Griffin 8/14/03 9:25 AM Page 51   ...................... Enough About the Disappearing South What About the Disappearing Southerner? by Larry J. Griffin and Ashley B. Thompson rofound transformations in the South since the 1960s have led many observers to sound the region’s death knell. Distinctive and exceptional no longer, they say, the region has been disap- pearing, vanishing, shrinking, and converging with mainstream P America for decades, a victim of relentless incorporation into mass society. In a brief but stark Time magazine essay published in 1990, Hodding Carter III, a former Mississippi newspaper editor transplanted to Washington, D.C., went even further, voicing the judgment that the South was dead: “ The South as South, a living, ever regenerating mythic land of distinctive personality, is no more. At most it is an artifact lovingly preserved in the museums of culture and the shops of tourist commerce precisely because it is so hard to find in the vital centers of the region’s daily life . . . the South is dead. . . . . What is lurching into existence in the South is purely and contemporaneously mainstream Ameri- can, for better and for worse.” Historian James Cobb reminds

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Published: Aug 20, 2003

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