Caffeinated Ramblings Presents….

Chinky

  • 10:04:54 am on January 29, 2008 | # |
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    Contrary to other Americans, the collective experience of Southerners includes decades of scarcity and poverty rather than of abundance; of guilt rather than innocence; of frustration and defeat rather than of unfailing victory and success. Such a regional experience has made Southerners skeptical with regard to the myths that undergird American nationalism. The Southerners’ “historic” experience has given them a better grasp on reality, a heightened suspicion of all utopian schemes, and an antidote to moral complacency.

    SRC: http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/border/bs7/kennedy.htm

    (So yes, Mark#2, you were accurate about the quote being written early in the 20th century.)

     

Comments

  • oysterblues 3:43 pm on January 29, 2008 | #

    So then…the rest of the state’s view of the south is different than perviously thought?

    I don’t know about those texans though. The ones I know are proud to be texans, and loud about it.

  • saysmark 5:14 pm on January 29, 2008 | #

    B.S.

    Maybe compared to a few Northeastern states there’s a difference, but there are plenty of places in non-Southern states that have the same problems of poverty and lack of success, and plenty of places where a large number of Americans are very skeptical. Whoever wrote that, depending on what year it was written, only included a very short-sighted view of the nation.

    If it was written shortly after the Civil War it might make more sense because there wasn’t much expansion to the West at the time.

  • emperorpartin 6:57 pm on January 29, 2008 | #

    I tend to agree with Mark #2 here, especially after the post-9/11 nationalistic fervor swept over here.

  • saysmark 4:04 pm on January 30, 2008 | #

    Actually, that says that the book the quote comes from was published in 1981.

  • Chinky 5:27 pm on January 30, 2008 | #

    But the guy was born kinda immediately after the civil war.

  • saysmark 5:44 pm on January 30, 2008 | #

    Well the civil war ended in 1865, and he was born in 1906. I think that’s still a big gap.

    Either way, he’s wrong.

  • Chinky 5:50 pm on January 30, 2008 | #

    Within context. Okay, okay. Reading that whole damn article was like semi-hallucination.

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