Sentence:  The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less <WSD>Southern</WSD> , 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:  in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line