Excerpt from Presidential Address: Annual Convention, American Association on Mental Deficiency, Atlantic City, N. J., May 7, 1937Next to the Piedmont section is the Sand Hill region which was once the beach of an old, old ocean. In this belt, extending entirely across the state from Georgia into North Carolina, are the two famous winter resorts, Aiken and Camden. Dotted here and there are the remnants of old plantations, where the descend ants of a greatly altered society now live. However, the majority of the people are of the tenant and share-cropper classification, lacking the surprise element of dynamic potentialities exhibited among some individuals in the upper Piedmont and mountain section. In this section is also found the largest number of col ored people in proportion to the whites.In the semi-tropical coastal and Low Country area, there was developed an aristocracy and independence which had no rival in European countries. A Baron who lived on a plantation was lord of all he surveyed, having vast tracts of land, servants, white and black, and tutors for his children. With the exception of a few commodities, the place was equipped to manufacture every thing needed. Household furnishings, . Sometimes exteriors as well as interiors, china and silver were imported from Europe.Scattered over this vast expanse of square miles, from the moss-canopied flower gardens, rich in ante-bellum romance, up through the long-leaf pine region and red-clay hills to the mountains, with no large urban centers, is a group of people with a distinct class-consciousness.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.