The New South In the period before the American Civil War (1861–65; a war between the Union [the North], who were opposed to slavery, and the Confederacy [the South], who were in favor of slavery), the South had remained a largely rural society,...

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States. Because of the region's unique cultural and...

This paper bridges two lines of research. One line shows that social relations in the southern United States are more "collectivist" than social relations in non-southern regions. The second line of work argues that collectivist social relations generate lower levels of general trust than...

Southern United States: An Environmental History. By Donald E. Davis, with Craig E. Colten, Megan Kate Nelson, Barbara L. Allen, and Mikko Saikku. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Nature and Human Societies Series, edited by Mark R. Stoll. xxii + 409 pp. Illustrations, notes,...

See you later, alligator. After while, crocodile. What rhymes with caiman? Well, nothing, really. But that doesn't keep the scaly critters from turning up in New York City, far from their native habitats in the tropical Americas, and replenishing one of the...

Ambushing locals as they return home from work, foreign invaders are dismembering French natives and feeding them to their young.This horror scenario is playing out in France's beehives, where an ultra-aggressive species of Asian hornets _ who likely migrated in pottery shipped from China _...