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The article discusses the Girls'' Tomato Club Movement, organized by South Carolina schoolteacher Marie Samuella Cromer in 1910 to promote teaching girls living in the Southern States how to grow better tomatoes, as well as become better women and wives. The author also discusses the early 20th century history of agricultural youth groups; the establishment of the 4-H, the American youth program designed to foster agricultural knowledge; the establishment of state-based agricultural extensions; and Southern food.

The essay moves around all dominant gender agreements to find the efforts of seventies-era southern feminists to make a lesbian print culture. It says that lesbian-feminist books, shorter chapbooks, journals, periodicals, newspapers, posters, and broadsides were marketed across the U.S. via social networks, community organizations, and business during the 1970s and 1980s to invite public consciousness and make materials for a lesbian-feminist change.

The article presents a sample of work from an exhibit at Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art. It reports that inspired by the work of legendary southern photographer William Eggleston at exhibition "The Democratic Forest," which highlights images of unconventional subjects or by artists from underrepresented groups.

The article discusses the relationship between moon pies and the culture of the U.S. Southern States, offering several personal accounts of Southerners' early memories of eating moon pies. Topics, including the incorporation of the subject of moon pie addiction into literature, purchasing moon pies at country stores, the inventor of moon pies Ed Mitchell Jr.'s memory of coal miners' desire for moon pies to be a larger size and the Chattanooga Bakery employee Earl Mitchell's invention of moon pies in 1919, are discussed.

The article talks about the Latino population in twenty first century North Carolina, presenting interviews with people who have migrated. Topics discussed include Latino migration to the U.S. South being at a higher rate than the rest of the country, and the social, political and economic changes brought to the region due to the migrations.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including ethnic identity and distinctiveness in Southern U.S.

The article presents images of a mullet fishing camp on Brown's Island in South Carolina taken by photographer Charles A. Farrell in 1938.

The article discusses the history of development of real estate in coastal areas in the southern U.S. during the 20th century. Threats to coastal communities from rising sea levels are forecast, inequity in the reconstruction process following hurricane Katrina is analyzed, and racial elements in changes in the economy of the American South after the Civil War are explored.

The article discusses the prospects for the continuation of African American slavery in the U.S. Southern States had the American Civil War not occurred, with a particular focus on the role that slavery played in the Southern economy. An overview of the American South's regional differences, including in regard to the profitability of slaveholders throughout various regions, is provided. The relationship between cotton and slavery, including U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's estimation during the 1860s that the invention of the cotton gin would allow slavery to continue for a century, is discussed.

An essay is presented which explores the social meaning of the term hillbilly (which is defined as a negative term used for mountain people, including Appalachian people), relying heavily on the author's experience growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Buncombe County, North Carolina during the second half of the 20th century. Particular focus is given to the hillbilly culture, including the author's participation on a high school square dance team and his social identity as a hillbilly.

An introduction is presented which discusses articles within the issue on topics including the social impact of the cartoonist Norman Ethre Jennett's racist comics, the role of moon pies in the U.S. Southern States' culture and the Southern farmer Crandall Fountain's perspective on agriculture.

The article discusses music piracy in the southern United States during the 1970s. The author describes the history of bootlegging alcohol in the southern U.S. and legislation against bootlegging is discussed. Special attention is paid to bootlegger Jerrold (Jerry) Pettus, and the legal aspects of sound recordings aimed at mimicking songs produced by other musicians are noted. Other topics include intellectual property and anti-monopoly laws and the connection between bootlegging and counterculture in the southern U.S.

The essay discusses the influence of Hawaiian music on early American blues guitarists, focusing on the Hawaiian origins of the slide guitar style. Topics discussed include Hawaiian steel guitarist Joseph Kekuku‘upenakana‘iaupuniokamehameha Apuakehau; the popularity of Hawaiian music in the southern United States; and the music of various guitarists such as Sylvester Weaver, Pale K. Lua, and Lonnie Johnson.

The article discusses the influence of hip-hop music from the southern United States on music in Senegal. The music of hip-hop artist Akon and dance-pop musician Pape Ndiaye Thiopet is highlighted, and special attention is paid to the influence of southern hip-hop music on the Senegalese hip-hop group GOTAL. Other topics include Senagalese rapper Astou "Toussa" Gueye, the lyrics and aesthetics of southern hip-hop music, and Senegalese National Ballet percussionist Mor Thiam's integration of American jazz and Senegalese music.

The article discusses the different ways in which African Americans Southern U.S. whites construe their Southern regional identity. The authors argue that African Americans see their race as central to their understanding of this regional identity, while many whites do not. They connect the importance of racial identity to African Americans' and whites' different understandings of Southern U.S. history, with many African Americans believing issues of segregation and racism and their struggles against them to be central to this history. A lack of concern over racial identity among whites is also explained. Information is taken from a survey of African Americans and whites conducted by the authors.

The essay discusses the importance of debutante balls to the formation of Southern U.S. elite identity, with focus given to the balls put on by the St. Cecilia Society in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Idlewild Club in Dallas, Texas. The author explains how these societies, which are run by men, perpetuate the Southern patriarchy system and enact a form of social control over their female members through their secrecy.

The essay discusses the political aspects of the desegregation of public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia from the 1950s through the 1970s. Topics discussed include the firing of progressive English teacher Thomas Burwell (T. B.) Robinson Jr., the county's public school superintendents, and an increase in the political power of Blacks in the county during the 1970s.

The essay discusses political conditions in the southern United States as of the Fall of 2012. The author notes that the South does not function as a politically unified region, and special attention is paid to the increasing roles of large metropolitan areas in the economy and politics of the South. Other topics include the Republican Party (GOP) in Texas, southern voters' emphasis on social and cultural issues, and the Democratic Party's political strategy in the South.

An essay is presented which discusses rural U.S. Southern women's selling of food to grocers in urban areas and urban women's purchasing of their food throughout the U.S. South during the first half of the 20th century. Southern women's desire for their food supply to come from local farms is discussed.

An essay is presented which discusses social scientists' perspective on U.S. Southerners' diet and cooking from the 1920s through to the 1940s. An overview of the New Deal's documentary projects, including the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) State Guides, is provided. The role that the photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange played in documenting Southern food culture is discussed.

An essay is presented which discusses the 19th century social conditions of Irish immigrants in the southern U.S. states. Topics include socially equating Irish people with African Americans and the Irish immigrants' eventual social integration with other whites. The author refutes the thesis in the book "How the Irish Became White," by Noel Ignatiev which contends that the Irish "became white" by highlighting their racial superiority over African Americans.

An essay is presented on a statue of Thomas Ruffin, former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, and its relationship to historical memory of the southern U.S. According to the author, the statue was part of a larger effort by North Carolina's citizens and politicians to build a narrative of reconciliation and shared purpose following the U.S. Civil War. Topics discussed include Ruffin's legal rulings on slavery, war monuments and the so-called Lost Cause of southern separatism.

The article presents the reflections of photographer William Christenberry on his career, as seen in the 1983 film "Painting in the South," which accompanied the exhibition "Painting in the South: 1564-1980," at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. He also reflects on his interest in rural graveyards, his work concerning the white supremacy organization the Ku Klux Klan, and his construction of models of Alabama churches and country stores.

In this essay the author discusses his life as an citizen of Ireland living in the southern United States. A number of topics are addressed including his writing of poetry, the problem associated with dual citizenship, the accent and pronunciation of native North Carolinians, and the easy availability of guns in the south.

The article discusses ways to define the geographical extent of the U.S. South, with reference to research in the 1970s conducted by sociologist John Shelton Reed. Reed's study, which recorded the number of business names beginning with "Dixie," "Southern," and "American," is repeated by the authors. Differences in connotation between the first two regional terms are discussed, with "Dixie" seen as indicating a stronger and more adversarial sense of sectional identity, sometimes also associated with racism. The decline in use of "Dixie" for business names relative to "Southern" since the time of Reed's study is also discussed.

An essay is presented, discussing a 1917 essay by U.S. journalist and social critic H. L. Mencken titled "The Sahara of the Bozart," a scathing denunciation of arts and culture in the U.S. South. Mencken's influence and his penchant for exaggeration are discussed, as are the aspects of Southern intellectual life and culture he overlooked.

The essay focuses on the coastal Southern states of the U.S. The essay discusses the people who moved into one particular city from another location. Essay topics include southern identity and sense of place, the races of those who claimed southern identity, and the attitudes of college students at southern universities.

The essay focuses on villages along the northern rim of the Gulf Coast in 1941. The villages were sustained through fishing and tourism. Visitors frequented the night clubs and more visitors from mostly Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia came after World War II. The essay also discusses the local residents' interaction with the tourists.

The article explores how southern food in entwined with the culture, history, and traditions of the Southern States and is part of its cultural identity. Based on the findings of the Spring 1992 Southern Focus Polls conducted by the Center for the Study of the American South and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina, the author compares the attitudes towards food of people living in the South to those people who reside outside the Southern States, as well as between White Southerners and African American Southerners. Some of the food items asked about were: okra, chitlins, fried tomatoes, pork rind, sweet potato pie, catfish, boiled peanuts, and moon pie.

An essay is presented on Confederate monuments. For the author, who grew up in the American South, the most compelling monuments are those that illuminate how Americans addressed the memory and legacy of the Civil War. She cites the different ways to encounter monuments. It describes the Yorktown Victory Monument's iconography.