Summary: <p>In this podcast, <a href="http://francis.edu/arthur-remillard/">Art Remillard</a> talks with <a href="http://tracythompson.com/">Tracy Thompson</a> about her recent book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mind-South-Tracy-Thompson/dp/1439158037">The New Mind of the South</a></em>. Thomson is a journalist, book author, and editor, who, for fifteen years, reported for the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</em> and the <em>Washington Post</em>. She also blogs at <em><a href="http://theblockheadchronicles.blogspot.com/">The Blockhead Chronicles</a></em>. Thompson begins our conversation by explain how her book is similar to, and unique from, Wilber J. Cash’s 1941 classic, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mind-South-W-J-Cash/dp/0679736476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373306443&sr=1-1">The Mind of the South</a></em>. She then discusses the South that she encountered while traveling through the region and studying its history and culture. The podcast concludes with Thompson pondering what it means to be a “southerner” in the twenty-first century.</p>
