The New South

THE NEW SOUTHA CHRONICLE OF SOCIALAND INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTIONBY HOLLAND THOMPSONNEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESSTORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORDOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSBook is FromCopyright, 1919, by Yale University PressCONTEXTS! THE IlirKC.KOrXI) pujp \II THK roNFKDKHATK SOLDIER TAKESniA!ic;K "" §in THE KKvoi/r OF THE <*OMMOX MAX "" siIV, THE FAEMKE AND THE LAND " fillV. IXDl'STHfAL DEVELOPMENT «" H0VI, I.AIUm I'ONDITIONS 44 ifMlVII. THK PIIOHU'I'M OK BLAC'K AND WHITE 4* UOvill KlMvynovM. I>U(K;KKSS «* ir»7IX THK S«H'Til OF TODAY " ill!THE HKITIKATIOX OF STATE DEBTS M sW7liI»LlOC*!tAFiIKfAL NOTE 8* «»ftIXDF,X ** MSTHE NEW SOUTHCHAPTER ITHE BACKGROUNDTHE South of today is not the South of 1860 oreven of 1865. There is a New South, though notperhaps in the sense usually understood, for no ex-pression has been more often misused in super-ficial discussion. Men have written as if the phraseindicated a new land and a new civilization, utterlyunlike anything that had existed before and involv-ing a sharp break with the history and the tradi-tions of the past. Nothing could be more untrue.Peoples do not in one generation or in two ridthemselves entirely of characteristics which havebeen developing for centuries.There is a New South, but it is a logical develop-ment from the Old South. The civilization of theSouth today has not been imposed from without* -THE NEW SOUTHbut has been ...