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And Applebome goes too far when he suggests that an even more reactionary strain of Southern thought--"neo-Confederate" ideology--has gone mainstream in America.
To suggest, as Applebome does, that "it's hard to know these days where the Confederacy ends and the Republican Party begins," is to lump the GOP with some far-out folk, many of whom genuinely believe in black New World Order helicopters and the genetic inferiority of the black race.
In Dixie Rising , Applebome's eminently balanced portrait of today's South, the veteran Atlanta-based reporter for the New York Times turns this debate on its head.
Applebome warns that if the Southern doctrines now sweeping through America--states' rights, low taxes, and quasi-fundamentalist Christianity, among other things--do for the country what they've done for Dixie, we may all be in trouble.
Nowhere is this book's love/hate affair with the South more obvious than at the end, when Applebome profiles Lewis Grizzard, the Georgia humorist and newspaper columnist who asked that his ashes be spread on the 50 yard line of the Georgia Bulldogs' stadium.