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Article: `Still Fighting The Civil War: The American South and Southern History' by David Goldfield; LSU Press.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 20, 2002
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You don't have to look very far to see how history travels backward so often in the modern American South. In South Carolina during the 1990s, for instance, some blacks and whites mixed comfortably in business and social occasions. But there also were church burnings, a Confederate flag ruckus, a Jaycees group that turned away an integrated swimming group in Saluda County and a restaurant in Aiken County that refused to serve blacks.
Is there any wonder people are so curious to know why _ not whether _ the South still fights the stain of racism, the hangover from the Civil War?
Historian David Goldfield, who teaches at the University of North ...