South (U.S. Region)

<p>The boy's vicious killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped to transform America's racial consciousness.</p>

<p>Willie Morris interviews William Ferris, a connoisseur and chronicler of everything Southern.</p>

<p><span class="deck">It’s the fastest-growing music in America. It’s a three-billion-dollar-plus industry. Cable stations devoted to it reach 62,000,000 homes. And yet, says one passionate follower of country music past and present, its story is over. </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The old Confederacy got only as far north as Pennsylvania, but its great-grandchildren have captured America’s culture. Joshua Zeitz looks at sports, entertainment, and religion to show how.</span></p>

<p>Hernando de Soto marched across what is now eleven U.S. states, leaving a trail of destruction and disease.</p>