Can This Be Dixie?: Building the Hollywood South

Hallelujah (King Vidor, 1929). The American South exists only in the imagination, yet it’s as real as sin. It cannot merely be the land situated beneath the Mason-Dixon (the historical survey line that traditionally demarcated Northern and Southern states), whose citizens fought under the banner of the Confederacy; one cannot ignore the obviously Southern states of West Virginia and Kentucky, or the political split between West and East Tennessee. It cannot be a shared culture or a shared history, for the residents of Jacksonville, Florida, find little in common with those families tucked deep

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