NASCAR

For Independence Day, we highlight some of our favorite stories of what it means to be American.

• By Rebecca Worby

Lessons from the Fourth of July at a NASCAR track.

• By Win Bassett

Have Southerners always been uncomfortable with the flag's history?

• By Jay Livingston

If the South is really such a backward place, why is it so in love with Brad Paisley?

• By Dorothy Fortenberry

What Jimmie Johnson and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., owe to a PhD in the pit crew.

• By Vince Beiser