Sentence:  The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the <WSD>less</WSD> 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:  (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree