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The Southern Agrarians bemoaned the increasing loss of Southern identity and culture to industrialization. They believed that the traditional agrarian roots of the United States, which dated back to the nation's founding in the 18th century (with many of America's most important [[Founding Fathers]] being farmers), were important to its nature. Their manifesto was a critique of the rapid industrialization and urbanization during the first few decades of the 20th century in the southern United States and elsewhere. It posited an alternative based on a return to the more traditionally rural and local/regional culture, and agrarian [[American values]]. The group opposed the rapid and destabilizing changes in the U.S. that were leading it to become more urban, national/international, and industrial. Because the book was published at the opening (1930) of what would eventually become the [[Great Depression]], some viewed it as particularly prescient. The book's stance was [[anti-communist]].

 

 

[[Robert Penn Warren]] emerged as the most accomplished of the Agrarians. He became a major American poet and novelist, winning the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for his 1946 ''[[All the King's Men]]''.