Cavalier and Yankee : the origins of Southern "otherness" -- The South becomes a cause -- The New South and the old cause -- The Southern Renaissance and the revolt against the New South creed -- Southern writers and "the impossible load of the past" -- The mind of the South -- The South of guilt and shame -- No North, no South? the crisis of Southern white identity -- "Successful, optimistic, prosperous, and bland" : telling about the No South -- Blackness and Southernness : African Americans look south toward home -- Divided by a common past : history and identity in the contemporary South -- The South and the politics of identity.