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[...]Vance concluded, "the South is not one region but many," and went on to catalogue them all in his celebrated Human Geography of the South (University of North Carolina Press, 1932). Cash saw "a fairly definite mental pattern, associated with a fairly definite social pattern-a complex of established relationships and habits of thought, sentiments, prejudices, standards and values, and associations of ideas, which, if it is not common stricdy to every group of white people in the South, is still common in one appreciable measure or another, to all but relatively negligible areas." Mardi Gras was the community's special day to shine, and Wilkerson-Freeman has uncovered Robinson's penetrating examinations of his friends' revelry. NAACP chair Julian Bond talks about his long career as a civil rights activist in his interview for "Southern Voices," including his role in the famous March on Washington, D.C., in 1963.