Baldwin held that the South’s unchanging spirit is America’s spirit

Evidence

“I don’t want to say that nothing has changed. Something is always changing,” Baldwin said in 1979. But, “the spirit of the South has not changed….The spirit of the South is the spirit of America.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 448

Categorization

• DEFINE: Baldwin’s own careful qualification of change — surface change coexists with an unchanged regional/national spirit.