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New South, New South Democracy or New South Creed is a slogan in the history of the American South, after 1877. Reformers use it to call for a modernization of society and attitudes, to integrate more fully with the United States, and reject the economy and traditions of the Old South and the slavery-based plantation system of the antebellum period. The term was coined by its leading spokesman and ''Atlanta'' editor Henry W. Grady.〔Henry Grady, ''The New South: And Other Addresses. With Biography, Critical Opinions, and Explanatory Notes'' (1904) ( online )〕 ==Etymology== The term has been used with different applications in mind. The original use of the term "New South" was an attempt to prescribe an attractive future based on a growing economy. The industrial revolution of the North was the model. The antebellum South was heavily agrarian. After the war, the South was impoverished and still rural; it was heavily reliant on cotton and a few other crops with low market prices. It seemed to be in great need of urbanization and industrialization. Slavery was abolished, and African Americans played a different role in the New South. Henry W. Grady made this term popular in his articles and speeches as editor of the ''Atlanta Constitution''. Richard Hathaway Edmonds of the Baltimore ''Manufacturers' Record'' was another staunch advocate of New South industrialization. ''The Manufacturers' Record'' was one of the most widely read and powerful publications among turn of the 20th century industrialists. Historian Paul Gaston coined the specific term "New South Creed" to describe the promises of visionaries like Grady who said industrialization would bring prosperity to the region.〔.〕 The classic history was written by C. Vann Woodward: ''The Origins of the New South: 1877–1913'', published in 1951 by Louisiana State University Press. Sheldon Hackney, a Woodward student, hails the book but explains: The New South campaign was championed by Southern elites often outside of the old planter class, in hopes of making a fresh ("new") start forming partnerships with Northern capitalists in order to modernize and speed the economic development of the South. From Henry Grady to black leader Booker T. Washington, New South advocates wanted southern economic regeneration, sectional reconciliation, racial harmony and believed in the gospel of work. The rise of the New South involved the continued supremacy of whites over blacks, who had little or no political power. For example, Grady stated in an 1888 speech about the New South: "the supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever, and the domination of the negro race resisted at all points and at all hazards, because the white race is the superior race... (declaration ) shall run forever with the blood that feeds Anglo-Saxon hearts". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New South」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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