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Catawba College - Fall 2012 | ||
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The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (Reprint Edition) by James Charles Cobb Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-19-508913-8 / 0195089138 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-508913-4 / 9780195089134 "Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "are antebellum conditions so nearly preserved." This crescent of bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, remains in some ways what it was |