Newsweek focuses on the South and elections

The new issue of Newsweek has a cover story, "The End of the South" that features several stories of the South and how it is relating to the election process this year. In an essay called "Southern Discomfort" that highlights recent travels across the region, writer Christopher Dickey notes:

"Now this part of the country, where I have my deepest roots, feels raw again, its political emotions more exposed than they've been in decades. George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama have unsettled the South: the first with a reckless war and a weakened economy, the second with the color of his skin, the foreignness of his name, the lofty liberalism of his language. Suddenly the palliative prosperity that salved old, deep wounds no longer seems adequate to the task."

Other stories from the magazine:

• Howard Fineman on Obama's Southern strategy
• Jon Meacham writes the South "Just ain't that different any more"
• Photo essay of the South

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