every bad thing in america is not attributable to the "south" that is your personal belief system, not a fact.
We're talking past each other... "The South isn't Geography."
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"The South isn't Geography." so you admit to your prejuidice? thank you :-)
every bad thing in america is not attributable to the "south" that is your personal belief system, not a fact. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep |
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We'd do better in this conversation if you didn't try to read my mind.
(I'm having problems parsing your last post.) That PDF I posted made lots of good points about views of "honor" and the "need to take revenge". And where those attitudes came from. And how they found fertile soil in the American South (and West). The KKK was big in Indiana and elsewhere that wasn't in the South. It's hard to argue, though, that the KKK isn't intimately tied up with "Southern Culture". E.g.: Perhaps the first such pro-Klan literary work was James D. Lynch’s epic poem Redpath, or, the Ku Klux Tribunal (1877). Lynch was a Mississippi lawyer who had become a prominent and vocal opponent of Reconstruction, and as Democrats retook the South he turned his attention to literary efforts, first in the epic poem Robert E. Lee, or, Heroes of the South (1876) and then in Redpath. What is most striking about Redpath is its titular hero, a northern political aide who travels to the South on a fact-finding mission for a prosecution of the KKK and who converts to the cause when he learns instead of what the poem insists are the organization’s necessary and heroic activities. To aid in similar national conversions, Lynch went on to write a prominent anti-Reconstruction, pro-KKK history of his home state, Kemper County Vindicated, and a Peep at Radical Rule in Mississippi (1879). And by the early 1890s, the nation had indeed seemingly converted, as illustrated by the choice of Lynch to compose the official welcoming poem for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Woodrow Wilson did a lot to segregate the Federal Government even though he was President of Princeton University and Governor of New Jersey (though he was born in Virginia - how about that). So those aspects of "Southern Culture" can be found anywhere in the US (and elsewhere). But it's the South that still celebrates people like Robert E. Lee and their treasonous "honor" and so forth - not the North. So, again, racism and all sort of vile characteristics of Americans can be found anywhere. And good people can be found in the South and anywhere. But lots of pathologies of "Southern Culture" can be found anywhere, too. I think I'm about done. :-) Cheers, Scott. |
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a while back I mentioned some egregious racism in ohio. Your response was that it was transplanted Kentuckians. After pointing out that they were home grown ohioans you then explained it was a kentukianism infection. Sorry the evil racists deeds of native yankees cannot be laid at the feet of dead southerners 100+ years in the past. The new jersey boy who moved to south carolina to work as a cop so he could shoot unarmed blacks in the back is finding out that it doesnt work that way. The cops that choked the black man to death for selling single cigarettes wasn't from the south he was home grown. If you look at who is shooting who, it is the southern states that are investigating and charging where necessary. In the northern states, jumping out of a car and shooting a 12 yo kid in seconds is considered justified. his ass would be in jail down here. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep |
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Yeahbut...
We're saying similar things with different emphasis. From the SPLC: A History of Protecting Society’s Most Vulnerable They were founded to address a need in the South. That doesn't mean the need goes away when one crosses the Ohio River. Because as you, and I, have said, the ideas aren't restricted by geography. Your Ohio thread is there. I don't think I would change anything I said there. FWIW. Cheers, Scott. |