" Mencken was also critical of an article by Donald Davidson which defended its religious and agrarian past.
John Bassett nearly lost his job for an unflattering article about the intellectual scene of this place. H. L. Mencken complained that this place is "almost as sterile, artistically, intellectually, culturally, as the Sahara desert" in "The Sahara of the Bozart." Mencken was also critical of an article by Donald Davidson which defended its religious and agrarian past. Davidson belonged to a group of writers from this place who argued for its traditionalism in the collection I'll Take My Stand. William Faulkner's novels are often classified as a type of "Gothic" fiction named for this place. For 10 points, name this region of the United States.
John Bassett nearly lost his job for an unflattering article about the intellectual scene of this place.
the American South [or obvious equivalents]