James C. Cobb is the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. His numerous publications include "Georgia Odyssey"; "Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South"; and "The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity" (all Georgia), as well as "The South and America since World War II"; "Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity;" "The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990;" and "The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity."