See Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (New York, 1991); Jon Teaford, Post-Suburbia : Government and Politics in the Edge Cities (Baltimore, 1996).
2.
See W.J. Cash, Mind of the South (New York, 1941); Bertram Wyatt Brown, The Shaping of Southern Culture (Chapel Hill, 2001); C. Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 (Baton Rouge, 1951); Edward L. Ayers, The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction ( New York, 1992).
3.
See, Samuel C. Hyde , Jr., ed., Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progression of the Civil Rights Struggle in the Gulf South, 1866-2000 (Gainesville, 2003); Lawrence H. Larsen, The Urban South: A History (Lexington, 1990).
4.
James C. Cobb, "Beyond Planters and Industrialist: A New Perspective on the New South," Journal of Southern History54 (February 1988): 54.
5.
George B. Tindall, "Mythology: A New Frontier in Southern History" in Frank E. Vandiver, ed., The Idea of the South: The Pursuit of a Central Theme (Chicago, 1964), 7-9.
6.
Harold Platt, City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Service in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 (Philadelphia, 1983).
7.
James C. Cobb, "The Sunbelt South: Industrialization in Regional, National, and International Perspective," in Raymond A. Mohl, ed., Search for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspective on a Region (Knoxville, 1990).
8.
James C. Cobb, "Urbanization and the Changing South: A Review of Literature," in Jack R. Cansens and N. Steven Steinert, eds., South Atlantic Urban Studies (Columbia, 1977), 253-67.
9.
See, Twelve Southerners, I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982); See also, Charles Garofalo, "The Atlanta Spirit: A Study in Urban Ideology," South Atlantic Quarterly74 (Winter 1975 ).
10.
David R. Goldfield and Howard N. Rabinowitz , "Epilogue: The Vanishing Sunbelt," in Raymond A. Mohl, ed., Searching for the Sunbelt: Historical Perspective on a Region (Knoxville, 1990), 227-8.
11.
See, Georgina Hickey , Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta 1890-1940 (Athens , 2003); Elna C. Green, ed., The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930 (Athens, 2003); Allison Dorsey, To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906 ( Athens, 2004).
12.
Howard N. Rabinowitz, Race, Ethnicity, and Urbanization: Selected Essays (Columbia , 1994).
13.
See Patricia Sullivan , Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (Chapel Hill, 1996).
14.
Kevin K. Gaines, Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill, 1996); Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 (Boston, 2006).
