Word: regional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price. As is often the case in areas of rapid economic development, prices in the South last year rose a trifle faster than the national average, though they are still at a lower level than in the North. The switch from agriculture to industry has also made the region more sensitive to the twists and turns of the national economy. The recent recession, which had a devastating impact on two of the region's main industries, textiles and construction, caused more suffering in the South than elsewhere. During 1975 total employment in the South fell...
...region is now well on the way to full recovery. Says Economist Ratajczak: "Next year half of the states in the South will have exceeded the 1974 peak in payroll employment from manufacturing, whereas most of the other states in the U.S. will still be behind." Despite worry that the sweeping development of the region could eventually hurt the environment and the South's unhurried style of living, the mood is optimistic. The feeling is that whatever problems the future holds, the region is finally moving out of the shadow of the North and into a bright...
Traditionally, the South's business elite has been composed of people who made fortunes developing the region's natural resources: land, textiles, lumber, oil. They formed a closed clique that exercised great financial and political power. Today all that is changing. New business opportunities are cropping up as fast as, well, peanuts. There is a high demand for enterprise with a Southern accent, and to fill it, a brash new breed of entrepreneurs. Profiles of four...
...McCullers, Tennessee Williams, early Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor-for close to 40 years, the line of inspired Southern writers seemed inexhaustible. Critics sometimes refer to this outpouring as the Southern literary renaissance. It is a misnomer, for nothing like that flow of writing had occurred in the region before. For American readers, it transformed the South, the literary South at least, into some sort of national possession, a province of the imagination like Camelot or Shakespearean England...
...modern Snopesian world of rootless mechanical men and heartless financiers had finally, as Faulkner was always predicting, done in the South? Or was it that creation flagged once deprived of one powerful, catalytic genius? Whatever the reason, Southern writing today, at the moment of what may be that region's first national triumph in over 100 years, seems stalled between the glorious past and an uncertain future. The past, in fact, has become a burden to its inheritors. On their triumphant march, the older authors left much of the terrain scorched earth. Writers who now elect to deal...