Mark Newman

Poverty and progress in the U.S. South since 1920

Progress from Poverty: Education and Self-improvement in Rural Regions Sears, Roebuck Catalog Games: Shop Window and Southern Literature Erskine Caldwell Anticipates the New South The War on the Home Front: James Agee and the Making of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Progress through Rayon: The Nederlandse Kunstzijdefabriek in Hominy Valley, 1928-1940 Juneteenth: The Evolution of an Emancipation Celebration The Never-ending Cycle of Poverty: Sarah E Wrights This Childs Gonna Live Lyndon Johnson and Albert Gore: Southern New Dealers and the Modem South From School Improvers to School Savers: Arlington Moderates and the Fight for Public Education, 1945-1959 The Mississippi Freedom Labour Union From William Alexander Percy to Walker Percy: Progress or Regress? A Sugar Cage: Poverty and Protest in Stephanie Blacks H-2 Worker Junkyard Tales: Poverty and the Southern Landscape in Janisse Rays Ecology of a Cracker Childhood The Southern Family Farm as Endangered Species: Possibilities for Survival in Barbara Kingsolvers Prodigal Summer Southern Conservatives: Race and Poverty, 1980-2006.

White Minority Culture in the Southern States of the USA: the Southern Baptist Example

Kenneth K. Bailey argues that ‘Sectionalism has perhaps been perpetuated more explicitly in the southern churches than in any other institution.’1 The churches defended the South against Northern abolitionist attack, supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, celebrated its myths in the Lost Cause, abhorred Northern declension from ‘true religion’ and supported the South’s perpetuation of racial inequality. Of all the major denominations in the American South, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) exhibited the most ingrained and longest sense of sectionalism and regional identity. Although Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians in the South split from their Northern co-religionists over the issue of slavery and formed regional denominations, Southern Baptists, alone, refused to reunite with their erstwhile Northern brethren in the twentieth century.2