EP 79 THE NEW SOUTH: HOW MANY SHADES OF GRAY?
Didn’t you have the feeling that the old South had given way to a region that had turned the corner of its regrettable past? As blacks have gained political power and immigrants have moved into the region, the winds of change seemed strong. Yet, now in the wake of Charlottesville, the debate over Confederate monuments and the nomination of Judge Roy Moore for a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, is their a pull to romanticize the Old South? We discuss this subject with Tony Horwitz, author of ‘Confederates in the Attic’ and piece about the South today recently published in the ‘Wall Street Journal’.
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