Excerpt from The Teachers College Quarterly, Vol. 10: January, February, March, 1923 A decade ago the South was largely self-centered. The men it sent to Congress took only a casual interest in matters that were not local to their States. They did not hold a strategic position in polit ical affairs for the simple reason that the South, always in the Demo cratic column, was not a pivotal section that could be swayed from side to side. Its Congressmen did not take a great part in moulding the foreign policies Of the country, aside from the tariff, for the reason that foreign policies were not vital issues in the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.