As few Southerners are extensive travelers, there are necessarily few books of travel and description.

Though most of the people live in a rural or semi-rural environment, very little is printed dealing with nature.

There are many writers of fiction, though few can be called artists.
The New South is full of contradictions and paradoxes.

It is living generations of social and economic changes in decades, and naturally all the people do not keep an even pace.

One may find culture that would grace a court alongside incredible ignorance; distinguished courtesy and sheer brutality; kindness and consideration of the rights and feelings of others together with cruelty almost unbelievable.