1. First to Secede, Last to Accede: South Carolina's Resistance to the Republic, 1780–Present — Thomas F. Schaller
Part II. Race, War, and Culture
2. Tom Watson and Resistance to Federal War Policies in Georgia during World War I — Zachary C. Smith
3. "Negroes, the New Deal, and . . . Karl Marx": Southern Antistatism in Depression and War — Jason Morgan Ward
4. Dixiecrats, Dissenting Delegates, and the Dying Democratic Party: Mississippi's Right Turn from Roosevelt to Johnson — Rebecca Miller Davis
5. Right Turn? The Republican Party and African American Politics in Post-1965 Mississippi — Chris Danielson
Part III. A Nation within a Nation?
6. Texas Philosophy, Nashville Agrarianism, Reagan Republicanism, and the Neo-Confederacy: The Influence of M. E. Bradford — Fred Arthur Bailey
7. The Evil Empire Within: Southern Nationalism and the Washington Problem — David R. Jansson
Part IV. Economic Development and Reform
8. Getting Farmers—and Tourists—"Out of the Mud": Alabama's Nineteenth-Century Experience with Public Projects and Its Response to the Federal Road Aid Acts of 1916 and 1921 — Martin T. Olliff
9. "From Nothin' to Somethin'": The Tennessee Valley Authority and Federal-Local Cooperation in the Sun Belt South, 1940–1960 — Matthew L. Downs
10. Lighting the "Dark and Evil World": Judge J. Smith Henley, Arkansas, and the Federal Judiciary's Reform of the Southern Prison — Gregory L. Richard
Part V. Tax Fury and the Tea Party
11. The Tea Party in the South: Populism Revisited? — Allan B. McBride
12. Deal or No Deal: Taxes, Government Spending, and Alabamians Having Their Cake and Eating It Too — Natalie Motise Davis