How ’bout a hand for the hog? Return migration to the Sunbelt. The history of southern intellectuals. New poetry by Charles Joyner. John Shelton Reed on the embattled battle flag. The role of archives in the modern era. And the politics of barbecue–in 1860.
"Which is more 'southern': a Faulkner symposium or a barbecue joint?"
"Both symbolically and in reality the hog has become ingrained in the culture of the South."
"The baby boomers are having children (creating the so-called 'baby boomlet'), returning to church in great numbers, and (not coincidentally) finding in country music (especially 'suburban country') a musical expression for their increasingly conservative tastes."
"More than twenty-five years on, the distinction Willie Morris once drew between the formative influences shaping New York intellectuals and southern intellectuals still strikes a resonant chord."
"The South is an enigma, secret and sacred."
The Jargon Society, 1993.
National Museum of American Art, 1991
University Press of Florida, 1994
University Press of Florida, 1993
Oxford University Press, 1993
Louisiana State University Press, 1992
University of Georgia Press, 1993
University Press of Kentucky, 1992
Louisiana State University Press, 1993
Oxford University Press, 1993
University of Alabama Press, 1993
General Hall, Inc., 1994
Oxford University Press, 1992
"It appears that favorable opinions about the banner are more widespread than the flag itself."
"Constituent case files provide important information on the effects of government on the populace and the manner in which government interacts with them."
"The Hendersons were Democrats, and John didn't much like what he heard at the rally, but like a true connoisseur, he complained about the quality and quantity of the barbecue."
