In this concise yet comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and crisply written study, Roland places developments over the last three decades in Southern economics, politics, education, religion, the arts, and racial revolution into a disciplined framework that brings a measure of order to the perplexing chaos of this era of fundamental change in Southern life.
~Choice
A superb survey of the post-World War II South.
~East Texas Historical Association
An intelligent, comprehensive, and provocative study which illuminates both a region of the United States and a time racked by ferment and change.
~Journal of Southern History
Roland provides a knowledgeable discussion of agriculture, religion, music and drama, and calls attention to a net gain of immigration into the South.
~Publishers Weekly
The most systematic and searching overview of the postwar South yet available.
~The Southern Quarterly
The strength and variety of the author's arguments make impossible a capsule summary of the book; the very clarity and ease of style help conceal the density of thought and concentrated labor that went into it.
~American Historical Review