The Border South States, seedbed of a nation from the age of Washington and Jefferson to the age of Jackson, entered a long eclipse with the Civil War that divided them so cruelly. Now, in the third quarter of the twentieth century, these states are inching their way back to national importance. The story of their decline, and especially of their resurgence, is told here by Neal Peirce as part of his account of people, politics, and power in the United States today. States discussed : Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.