Sentence:  The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does <WSD>not</WSD> make him any the less Southern , I rather think , for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  negation of a word or group of words