Southern Identity, Political Change & Why the South Still Matters | Chris Cooper – Western Carolina University (Ep. 24)

Chris Cooper on how the South has become more urban, diverse, and connected to the rest of America, yet its identity as Southern still matters. Cooper is the author of: Anatomy of a Purple State: A North Carolina Politics Primer and co-author with Gibbs Knotts of The Resilience of Southern Identity: Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People.Cooper recommends: Southern Politics in State and Nation (Key), Movers and Stayers: The Partisan Transformation of 21st Century Southern Politics (Irwin), Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign (Lee), Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South: The Untold Story (Hood and McKee), and An American Problem: How the Country Built—and the Supreme Court Broke—the Voting Rights Act (Miller and Morris)