Declining dixie: Regional identification in the modern American South

Social Forces

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1083-1101

  Cooper, Christopher A ^a   Knotts, H Gibbs ^a  

^a WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77953577259     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0284     Document Type: Article

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