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Cash did not limit his list of mental traits to opinions about race relations, but in one key respect, he and Phillips agreed: true southerners had to be white people. Perhaps it was Martin Luther King who began to integrate southern identity with his stirring hope "that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slaveholders will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." Earl Higgins takes us to one of the least appealing (if most inarguable) dimensions of southern difference in his discussion of the southern death penalty.