Army-Navy game, Polo Grounds, New York, 1916, courtesy of the collections of the Library of Congress.
"If the South can survive, should it—cotton mills, deb balls, and all?"
Reflections on the South frequently turn on questions of identity. Is the South really different? Different from what? How so and why? What is “southernness”? Is it disappearing or just changing? What is all this mysticism about “place”?