Most Southern Place on Earth The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity

A comprehensive history of the deep South - the bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers - from the first white settlement in the 1820s to the present. A portrait of the development and survival of a society and economy often seen as the most extreme in the South - an area where, despite the large black majority, whites have kept their grip on power throughout every era.Cobb, James C. is the author of 'Most Southern Place on Earth The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity', published 1994 under ISBN 9780195089134 and ISBN 0195089138.