Geography

 edited by Richard Pillsbury

 

“A comprehensive read and simply fascin-ating browse.”

— Jack Temple Kirby, author of Mockingbird Song: Southerners and Their Landscapes

“If you are a southerner and have ever wondered why you do the things you do, why you eat the foods you eat or talk the way you talk, why the trees grow the way they grow, and even the weeds in your yard, then you need The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. If you don’t have an old person to pass it down to you firsthand, this might be the next best thing.”

                                           — Rick Bragg, author of All Over but the Shoutin'

The location of “the South” is hardly a settled or static geographic concept. Culturally speaking, are Florida and South Carolina really part of the same region? Is Texas considered part of the South or the West? This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture grapples with the contestable issue of where the cultural South is located, both on maps and in the minds of Americans.

Richard Pillsbury’s introductory essay explores the evolution of geographic patterns of life within the region—agricultural practices, urban patterns, residential buildings, religious preferences, foodways, and language. The entries that follow address general topics of cultural geographic interest, such as Appalachia, exiles and expatriates, Latino and Jewish populations, migration patterns, and the profound Disneyfication of central Florida. Entries with a more concentrated focus examine major cities, such as Atlanta, New Orleans, and Memphis; the influence of black and white southern migrants on northern cities; and individual subregions, such as the Piedmont, Piney Woods, Tidewater, and Delta. Putting together the disparate pieces that make up the place called “the South,” this volume sets the scene for the discussions in all the other volumes of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

Richard Pillsbury is professor emeritus of geography at Georgia State University and author or coauthor of five books, including Atlas of American Agriculture: The American Cornucopia.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Landscape, Cultural
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  • African Origins Populations
  • Agriculture Regions
  • Appalachia
  • Central Florida, Disneyfication of
  • Crime and Violence
  • Ethnic Geography
  • Ethnicity, Patterns in
  • Exiles and Expatriates
  • Foodways, Geography of
  • Hispanic/Latino Origins Populations
  • Indians and the Landscape
  • Industrial Regions
  • Jewish Origins Populations
  • Land Division
  • Land Use
  • Language Regions
  • Log Housing
  • Migration, Black
  • Migration Patterns
  • Plantation Morphology
  • Population
  • Religious Regions
  • Retirement Regions
  • Rice Plantations
  • Roadside
  • Southwest
  • Sports, Geography of
  • Towns and Villages
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  • Acadian Louisiana
  • Atlanta
  • Birmingham
  • Black Belt
  • Carolina Low Country
  • Cherokee Settlement
  • Cotton Gins
  • Courthouse Square
  • Cuban Settlement
  • Delta
  • Faulkner’s Geography
  • Georgia Land Lottery
  • Little Dixie
  • Mason-Dixon Line
  • Memphis
  • Mills and Milling
  • Nashville
  • New Orleans
  • Northern Cities, Blacks in
  • Northern Cities, Whites in
  • Ouachita
  • Ozarks
  • Piedmont
  • Piney Woods
  • Plantation Morphology
  • Primogeniture
  • Richmond
  • Sea Islands
  • Sugar Plantations
  • Tidewater