Southern United States

The Southern United States or the South constitute a distinctive region covering a large portion of the United States. Due to the region's unique cultural and historic heritage, the South has developed its own customs, literature, musical styles (such as country music and jazz), and cuisine. The South has also been prominently involved in numerous issues faced by the United States as a whole, including slavery, the American Civil War, and Presidential politics (with the majority of the recent Presidents of the United States having come from the region).

References

• Richard N. Current, et. al, , 7th ed., New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
• David M. Katzman, "Black Migration," in The Reader's Companion to American History, Houghton Mifflin Co. (accessed July 6, 2005); James Grossman, "Chicago and the 'Great Migration'," Illinois History Teacher 3, no. 2 (1996), (accessed July 6, 2005).
• Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s, University of North Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN 0807848484.
• Rayford Logan, The Betrayal of the Negro from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson,, New York: Da Capo Press, 1997. (This is an expanded edition of Logan?s 1954 book The Negro in American Life and Thought, The Nadir, 1877-1901)
• James Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, New York: Touchstone, 1996. ISBN 0684818868
• Wilson, Charles Reagan, and Ferris, William (editors). Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
• Richard Wright, Black Boy, Harper & Brothers, 1945