Changing South

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Economic Advancement in the South

Economic Advances in the South, a section which President Roosevelt said 21 years ago presented “the nation's No. 1 economic problem,”1 are modifying characteristic aspects of the area which for many years have marked it as a distinct regional entity. Southern leaders express mixed feelings as their homeland begins to take on features indistinguishable from those of the nation as a whole. Economic progress is welcomed as a release from generations of poverty, but the passing of a tradition which, to the southerner, has many values worth preserving is regretted.

So pervasive is the trend toward conformity with other parts of the country that the historian, C. Van Woodward, recently suggested that “The time is coming, if indeed it has not ...

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