| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Book Review

Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. By James C. Cobb. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii, 404 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-508959-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 978-0-19-531581-3.)
James C. Cobb's Away Down South explores the history of southern identity—its creation and re-creation, the relationship between its past and present, and the tangled connection between the South and the nation. An impressive work of synthesis, Away Down South brims with a career's worth of reflections.	1
Cobb grapples with what it means, and what it has meant, to be a southerner. He argues that past constructions of southern identity shaped the ever-evolving present, from old myths about Cavaliers, Yankees, Sambos, and the "tragic era" of Reconstruction to the purveyors of the "New South Creed," the well- known formulations of William Faulkner, W. J. Cash, and Willie Morris, and up through current battles over Confederate monuments and shrines to the civil rights movement.	. . .

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