The Most Southern Place on Earth
Book description
A comprehensive history of the deep South - the bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers - from the first white settlement in the 1820s to the present. A portrait of the development and survival of a society and economy often seen as the most…
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1 author picked The Most Southern Place on Earth as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, I understood that much of American popular culture came from this odd place between Memphis and Vicksburg. James Cobb’s book tells the story of Blues music, agriculture, cataclysmic floods, and American apartheid.
I found it curious but fascinating that the Delta was one of the planet's most racially and culturally diverse places.
From Willy's list on Southern culture.
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