When I launched into this book, I swore a blasphemous oath upon such phony veneration. After a long life of reading footnotes, and reading them religiously, I have concluded that 98.2 per cent of them are so much flummery: They are showin’ off befo’ God. Thus I had not planned upon notes or bibliography, and this extended note is afterthought; it is the reluctant consequence of listening to beguiling editors. They said: Where did you get all this stuff? Whence these bizarre ideas? They said: Serious students will want to know where to get supporting material intended to prove (a) that you are a fraud, or (b) that there may be something to the Southern position after all. You ought to gird up your Gothic archness with a few flying buttresses of attribution. And in a moment of weakness, I said very well. The figures on population, area, wages, housing, and the like, in the opening pages of this book, come primarily from the 1960 Census and the _Statistical Abstract of the United States for 1961_. The Census people have a diabolical genius for presenting their data in the least usable possible form, but they have a monopoly on the figures and no other source exists. As for the nature of the South: Almost every Southerner who writes for a living at one time or another has wooed this elusive theme. I would suggest that a student start with W. J. Cash’s _The Mind of the South_, not because I agree with everything Cash had to say, but because his brief star flashed with a rare brilliance across the Southern sky. The Knopf edition of 1941 is now available in a Doubleday Anchor paperback, and though parts of it are dated, it continues to offer a good basic foundation. Then, at random, William Alexander Percy’s _Lanterns on the Levee_, and David Cohn’s _Where I Was Born and Raised_. The late William Polk of Greensboro, N.C., was a delightful gentleman; during an editorial writers’ convention in Boston, we once talked of the South’s problems between the bumps and grinds of an Old Howard Burly-Q. His book, _Southern Accent_ (1953) is fine background reading. Although they are hard to find, Ward Allison Dorrance’s several books on Southern rivers are worth the effort. Some good essays appear in _The Lasting South_ (1957), a collection edited largely by Louis D. Rubin, Jr., though my own name is on the spine too.