They thrill even today to _Dixie,_ and _The Bonnie Blue Flag,_ but this feeling is now purely emotional.
All the Southern States have felt, though unequally, the effects of industrialism.

The South Atlantic States have been most influenced by this movement, but even Mississippi and Arkansas have been affected.

In many sections the traveler is seldom out of sight of the factory chimney.

Some towns, in appearance and spirit, might easily seem to belong to a Middle Western environment but for the presence of the negro and the absence of the foreign born.

The population in these Southern towns is still overwhelmingly American.