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The Old South is part of our national myth - corseted Southern
belles strolling with lacy parasols, gentlemen sipping mint juleps
on the porch of the plantation house, slaves toiling in cotton and
tobacco fields, the Blue and the Grey battling in the nation's bloodiest
war. But new research shows that the South was never as simple as the
myths suggests. Nor will it ever be, say scholars who herald the New South
as a dynamic, modern, and complex place.
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