English Explanatory Dictionary

New South

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A proposed reform and modernization of the Southern United States, involving tighter integration with the rest of the United States and a rejection of the economy and traditions of the Old South and the slavery-based plantation system, while maintaining white supremacy through Jim Crow laws and disenfranchisement.

Word forms

New South the New South

Etymology

Coined by its leading proponent, Atlanta editor Henry W. Grady, in 1874.

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