Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People Without a HistoryIn much of the United States, immigrants from China banded together in self enclosed communities, "Chinatowns," in which they retained their language, culture, and social organization. In the South, however, the Chinese began to merge into the surrounding communities within a single generation's time, quickly disappearing from historical accounts and becoming, as they themselves phrased it, a "mixed nation." Lucy M. Cohen's Chinese in the Post Civil