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This 3 page paper reviews Jonathan Reed's book "One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture," about Southern identity. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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imbued with the "lost cause" mindset and still resentful of its defeat in what it persists in calling the "War of Northern Aggression," which it lost over 140 years ago.
This paper discusses John Shelton Reeds book One South: An Ethnic Approach to Regional Culture and how he uses the concept of ethnicity to explain the South. Discussion One
South is a series of essays that Reed has written over the years, in which he focuses on the "Souths strong regional identity and on the persistence ... of Southern
cultural distinctiveness" (One South, 2005). In this collection, Reed argues that "Southerners are similar in much the same way that members of an ethnic group are similar" (One South, 2005).
Reed explores the cultural values that are shared by Southerners, "ranging from serious examinations of Southern violence and regional identity" to far less serious subjects, such as "Southern humor, country
music," and the rise of a "new Southern middle class," a social class to which President Jimmy Carter and his family belong (One South, 2005). Reed structures his collection carefully,
opening the book with a section called "Sociology In and Of the South," which is comprised of three essays on the way in which sociological studies apply to the South
(One South, 2005). The first of the three essays discusses ways in which sociology can contribute to regional studies; the second essay "traces the history of sociological attention to the
South in our century," while the third argues that looking at the South from a sociological perspective might be "somewhat alien to well-bred Southerners" (One South, 2005). The second section
of the book, which he calls "Exploring Southern Identity," is probably the most important part of the book. In one of the three essays found here, entitled "The Heart of
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