• DOI:10.1353/sof.0.0284
Corpus ID: 53573849

Declining Dixie: Regional Identification in the Modern American South

@article{Cooper2010DecliningDR,
  title={Declining Dixie: Regional Identification in the Modern American South},
  author={C. Cooper and C. A. H. G. Knotts},
  journal={Social Forces},
  year={2010},
  volume={88},
  pages={1083 - 1101}
}

• C. Cooper, C. A. H. G. Knotts
• Published 2010
• Social Forces

We replicate and extend John Shelton Reed’s classic work on regional identification by examining and modeling the prevalence of the words “Dixie” and “Southern” in business names across 100 cities and four decades. We find that the instances of “Dixie” have dropped precipitously, although identification with the word “Southern” has remained more constant, providing evidence of a trend we term re-southernization. We also find that the relative number of blacks in the population provides the most… Expand

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