{"id":3565,"date":"2014-12-17T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatdevilhistory.wordpress.com\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2015-07-28T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:48:09","slug":"rise-of-the-paranoid-south-how-defending-against-outsiders-brought-the-region-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/17\/rise-of-the-paranoid-south-how-defending-against-outsiders-brought-the-region-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the paranoid South: How defending against \u201coutsiders\u201d brought the region together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3566\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/cruz_texas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3566\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3566\" src=\"https:\/\/thatdevilhistory.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/cruz_texas.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Ted Cruz (R-TX) certainly knows that he's  an exceptional southerner. \" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ted Cruz (R-TX) certainly knows that he&#8217;s an exceptional southerner.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My latest post is an article for <em>Salon<\/em> that explains why the American South continues to be exceptional in its own unique way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Civil War ended in 1865. Before the war, it was common parlance in America to speak of two regions: the \u201cNorth\u201d and the \u201cSouth,\u201d which were divided, above all else, over the issue of slavery. After the war, however, the idea of the \u201cNorth\u201d gradually disappeared from American culture, but \u201cThe South\u201d as a regional, cultural and ideological construction has lived on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/12\/17\/rise_of_the_fearful_south_how_defending_against_outsiders_brought_the_region_together\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing over at <em>Salon<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest post is an article for Salon that explains why the American South continues to be exceptional in its own unique way. The Civil War ended in 1865. 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