New Yorker : The Southernization of American life after 1964 and Civil Rights until now - Now the South is becoming isolated again. - The Solid South speaks less and less for America and more and more for itself alone

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Excerpts :

The Southern bloc in the House majority can still prevent the President from enjoying any major legislative achievements, but it has no chance of enacting an agenda, and it’s unlikely to produce a nationally popular figure.

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It would be better for America as well as for the South if Southerners rediscovered their hidden past and took up the painful task of refashioning an identity that no longer inspires their countrymen.

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New Yorker Magazine
Southern Discomfort
by George Packer
January 21, 2013

Southern Discomfort


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