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Front Porch

Front Porch In his essay, Steve Estes revisits the controversy over the admission of women to The Citadel from a unique perspective: the gay male cadets whose presence also contradicted the stereotypes of southern manhood upheld by the defenders of tradition. Photograph courtesy of The Citadel. 2 The South is changing, we all know that. Legalized Jim Crow, which once seemed monolithic and immovable, crashed and burned a generation ago and as many on all sides predicted at the time, change has seemed continuous ever since. Pros- perity erupted in expected and unexpected places, from Atlanta to Houston to Hilton Head, but the old industrial economy of textiles and the like took a beat- ing. New voters split the Solid South wide open and black congress members and legislators again strode the halls they were banished from in a previous century. Women captured governors’ mansions and seats in the Senate. If the politics of race did not disappear, it changed its shape in a new two-party system. Even more remarkable, Charlotte became a banking capital, Mississippi embraced casinos, and nAscAr went upscale. Topping it all, Catholics outnumbered Methodists in places, even beyond Louisiana. Change is not really new in the South, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Front Porch

Watson, Harry L.
Southern Cultures , Volume 16 (1) – Feb 27, 2010
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In his essay, Steve Estes revisits the controversy over the admission of women to The Citadel from a unique perspective: the gay male cadets whose presence also contradicted the stereotypes of southern manhood upheld by the defenders of tradition. Photograph courtesy of The Citadel. 2 The South is changing, we all know that. Legalized Jim Crow, which once seemed monolithic and immovable, crashed and burned a generation ago and as many on all sides predicted at the time, change has seemed continuous ever since. Pros- perity erupted in expected and unexpected places, from Atlanta to Houston to Hilton Head, but the old industrial economy of textiles and the like took a beat- ing. New voters split the Solid South wide open and black congress members and legislators again strode the halls they were banished from in a previous century. Women captured governors’ mansions and seats in the Senate. If the politics of race did not disappear, it changed its shape in a new two-party system. Even more remarkable, Charlotte became a banking capital, Mississippi embraced casinos, and nAscAr went upscale. Topping it all, Catholics outnumbered Methodists in places, even beyond Louisiana. Change is not really new in the South,

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Published: Feb 27, 2010

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