Although historians disagree regarding W.J. Cash’s conclusions about
the Old and New South, they agree that all serious scholars of Southern
history and culture must be familiar with Mind of the South.  In it, the North Carolinian predicted the Civil Rights Movement.  He died an untimely death in Mexico City in 1941.  Some question the cause of his death, considered a suicide by Mexican officials; Cash had been a fierce critic of the German Nazi and Italian Fascist regimes, and had feared that Nazi spies had been following him a couple days before his death.