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The article discusses the South's Changing Political Leadership in the U.S. The fact seems to be that in the South the demagogue is disappearing; the trend is a tentative movement toward national integration. The demagogues turned up in the course of its political life have long judged the South. It is something just short of amazing that in the furor over McCarthyism the disappearance of the demagogue from the Southern scene has gone virtually unnoticed. The trend toward integration in national political life so far has appeared on the fringes of the South. Three basic considerations stand in the forefront of any discussion of Southern politics: the region is fundamentally conservative; it operates within the framework of a one-party system; and it remains highly conscious of its minority position in the national councils. Southern leaders have undoubtedly developed the tactics of their minority position in advancing their causes. Programs favorable to private enterprise are assumed to hasten the industrialization of the South, and one finds representative leaders from the South working side by side in the Congress with Republicans devoted to those causes favored by the American Manufacturers' Association.