The New South

This is a Historical Book. This book describes that The South of today is not the South of 1860 or even of 1866. There is a New South, though not perhaps in the sense usually understood, for no expression has been more often misused in super-ficial discussion. Men have written as if the phrase indicated a new land and a new civilization, utterly unlike anything that had existed before and involving a sharp break with the history and the traditions of the past. Nothing could be more untrue. Peoples do not in one generation or in two rid themselves entirely of characteristics which have been developing for centuries.