Southerners: The Social Psychology of Sectionalism

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“A thoughtful, alert kind of sociology. . . . If only all sociological and psychological essays were similarly inviting, coherent, plainspoken. . . . It is something of an achievement . .  .that the particularity and ambiguity and irony and humor and complexity with which one associates the novelist . . . come across so wonderfully, so clearly and powerfully.”
    (Robert Coles, Social Forces)
 
“A valuable contribution to understanding the changing South.”
    (Contemporary Sociology)
 
“Lucid, sprightly, occasionally witty, and largely free of jargon, . . . a model of good social scientific writing. . . .  The story it tells is important.”
    (Norval Glenn, Public Opinion Quarterly)
 
“Reed [writes] with the same straightforward conciseness that has always made it difficult for historians to believe he really is a sociologist.”
    (James C. Cobb, Journal of Southern History)
 
“Sound in its scholarship and suggestive in its implications for further study.”
​    (William W. Pendleton, American Journal of Sociology)

​“The analysis is pursued with craftsmanship, the methods of data gathering and analytical strategies are clearly described, and the writing is a joy to read.” (James H. Copp, Rural Sociology)