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If You Care To Define The South As A Poor, Rural Region With Lousy Race Relations, That South Survives Only In Geographical Shreds And Patches And Most Southerners Don't Live There Any More.

-John Shelton Reed

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If You Care To Define The South

John Shelton Reed

If You Care To Define The South As A Poor, Rural Region With Lousy Race Relations, That South Survives Only In Geographical Shreds And Patches And Most Southerners Don't Live There Any More.

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