Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party politics, one crop agriculture, white supremacy, cultural insularity, grinding poverty, somnolent cotton towns, and languorous rural landscapes has largely passed into history. Possum Trot and Tobacco...