LAST TRAIN TO DIXIE
is a collection of Jack Trotter's Southern essays, many of them published over the course of more than a decade in
Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture
. Several of these essays look back towards the legacy of slavery, Reconstruction, and segregation, while others explore cultural themes in the more recent past, including several forays across the troubled terrain of the New South.
Implicit in most of these essays, both serious and humorous, is a concern for the question of Southern identity: how it was shaped, how it is threatened, and how it might endure
ESSAYS
"In All the Ancient Circles" Tourism and the Decline of Charleston's Elite Families
Of Monkeys and Mermaids
The Strange Career of Segregation
Grace King and the Prayers of Women
The Faces of Men
Zora Neale Hurston's White Mare
The Crossroads Merchants
GOP Country
Books Are for Blockheads! or, the Buckhead Bomber
The Flamingo Kid
Dixie for Dummies
Eating Crow
On Secession Hill
The Last Train: An Epilogue