ABSTRACT
Southern industrialists want the situation to remain unchanged, at least where labor standards are concerned. The original position of the Agrarians was based upon certain principles which they felt were historically correct, or, more than that, actually were the central source from which the South—and a good deal of America besides—derived both its economics and its cultural preferences. Economists have been slow about studying the intricate relationship between the advance of Southern industry, taxation for public improvements, the increase of tenancy, and the exportation of Southern wealth. The South's old sectionalism must be subdued to a mild and pliant regionalism, which will do its differentiating without marring the grand mosaic of the national pattern. The contradictory state of Southern opinion not only exists, and is confusing both to Southerners and to observers outside the South; it is approaching an excited and ominous stage.
