The predictions for the South of 1990 indicate growth at a breakneck speed: a 22% increase in population, v. 15% for the nation as a whole; a 38% increase in jobs, largely in manufacturing, v. 28% for the nation; a 55% increase in per capita income, v. 48% nationally. To place these immense changes in perspective, TIME asked the author of the classic work, The Burden of Southern History, to share his insights on the changing identity of his native region, and six other eminent Southerners for their brief personal visions of what lies...
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