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From the Vault · 1986
The New South and Its Discontents
On the eve of CNN's expansion, a city tries to reconcile its mythology with its arithmetic.
By Staff, Pulse Chronicles archive
ATLANTA · April 1, 1986
22 min read
Pulse Chronicles, Vol. VIII, No. 4, April 1986
The phrase "New South" has done so much rhetorical work over the past century that it is fair to ask, in the spring of 1986, what it now denotes.
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