Sentence:  Faulkner 's total works today , and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his comment , or in 1939 , when Mr. O' Donnell wrote his essay , reveal no such simple attitude toward the <WSD>South</WSD> . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line