New South
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For the residence hall at Georgetown University, see New South Hall. For the Country band, see New South (band). For the literary magazine, see New South (magazine).
Not to be confused with New South Wales.
New South, New South Democracy or New South Creed is a slogan in the history of the American South first used after the American Civil War. Reformers used it to call for a modernization of society and attitudes, to integrate more fully with the United States as a whole, reject the economy and traditions of the Old South, and the slavery-based plantation system of the prewar period. The term was coined by its leading spokesman, Atlanta editor Henry W. Grady in 1874.[1]