![]() ![]() ![]() And masses of readers were buying the legal thrillers written by the Mississippi lawyer John Grisham." Murray proposes that this laundry list of political and cultural benchmarks of Southern representation indicates that the compass of mainstream national interest in the early- to-mid-'90s was gradually pointing southward. The sitcom “Designing Women,” set in Georgia, was a staple in the Nielsen Top 10. The Atlanta hip-hop acts TLC, Kriss Kross and Arrested Development were all over the Billboard charts. Noel Murray writes, "In 1993, the country had just put the former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton in the White House, with the former Tennessee senator Al Gore as his vice president. A 2019 New York Times article proposes that John Grisham's success, and the subsequent success of the film adaptations of his best-selling novels, parallel the rise of a "New South," one that promotes progressive virtues and a critical consciousness of the troubling history of the American South, which is still, to this day, haunted by a legacy of racist violence, white supremacy, and slavery. ![]()
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