Contents: World War II and the postwar South -- The rise and fall of postwar liberalism -- The Dixiecrats and Southern conservatism -- The making of the modern South -- Race and reform -- Race and reaction -- Interposition, moderation, and
the federal government -- God and society in the modernizing South -- The Civil Rights Movement -- Conflict, consensus, and civil rights -- Politics, protest, and palliative -- The sunbelt South -- Afterword : the South since 1945 --
Critical essay on authorities.
Library Journal, November 1995.
Summary: Traces the developments in the political, economic, religious, cultural, and social realms of southern life in the years since World War II.
