Question

when new south is start and end in georgia

Answer 1

"New South" is a historical concept rather than a single fixed date, so historians disagree about exact start and end years. For Georgia the most commonly used markers are:

- Possible starts
- 1877: the end of federal Reconstruction—control returned to white Southern elites, beginning a political shift many tie to the New South.
- mid-1880s (especially 1886): Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, popularized the term and promoted industrial development in Georgia and the region.
- early 1880s: growth of Georgia textile mills, rail expansion, and boosterism that reflected the New South program.

- Possible ends
- c. 1913: a conventional end-date used by some historians (C. Vann Woodward’s book uses 1877–1913).
- 1920s–1930s: when the limits of the New South model (poverty, sharecropping, racial segregation) and the Great Depression/New Deal began to reshape the region.
- Some historians extend the concept changes into World War II or even until the Civil Rights era (1950s–60s), arguing the “Old South” social order persisted until then.

Georgia-specific context
- Atlanta was the New South’s showcase: boosterism, rail and industrial growth, and expositions (e.g., the Atlanta Cotton Exposition) in the 1880s–1890s.
- At the same time, Jim Crow laws, disfranchisement of Black voters, and an agricultural economy tied to cotton constrained real social and economic change.

If you want a concise timeline for Georgia (political milestones, industry growth, racial policies), or primary sources (Grady’s speeches, Atlanta exposition documents) I can give one or suggest specific books and articles.