ABSTRACT
The younger historians—and with them sociologists, political scientists, economists, and even men of letters—encountering the same phenomenon, name it regionalism and hail it with geniality or at least with resignation. Under a Functional regionalism, the growing of cotton would be permitted only in regions like Texas and the Delta of Mississippi, which are suited to mechanical, large-scale cultivation. There is a milder Functionalism which occupies a middle ground between collectivist regionalism and the regionalism which links up with a revived Federalism. From many quarters have come suggestions for the establishment of regional governments, either to replace the states as seats of local government or to intervene between the states and the Federal government. The long quarrel between North and South over the Western lands was a struggle of warring imperialisms, each eager to secure—always with due pretense of Federal sanction—the benefits of colonial territory.
