Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The legacy. On the idea of the South : origins, mutation, and fragmentation
  • part 2. The sociological vision : Howard Odum. Odum : sociology in the South ; Odum : Southern sociology ; Odum : the failure of regionalism
  • Entr'acte. A still point : John Wade. Wade : a turning inward
  • part 3. The reaction to modernism : the Southern agrarians. John Ransom : the cycle of commitment ; Allen Tate : "the punctilious abyss" ; Frank Owsley : "the immoderate past" ; Donald Davidson : "the creed of memory"
  • part 4. The survival of Southern identity. The idea of the South : an interpretation.