Why is the South so different from the rest of America? The South has resisted being assimilated by the larger United States and has kept a personality that is distinctly its own. That is why Reed celebrates the South.

John Shelton Reed

The Three Souths, I. The Journalistic Eye, II. History and Historians, III. Friends and Masters, IV. What They Say about Dixie, V. Six Southerners, VI. Southern Culture, High and Low, VII. Southern Lit (and One Movie), VIII. Reflections, IX. But Let's Talk about Me