The Enduring South - Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society (Paperback, New edition)

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.