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To: stainlessbanner; 4ConservativeJustices

What do you think of this?


46 posted on 05/05/2005 10:15:07 AM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: antisocial
I think Mr. Sowell oversimplifies the issue - it's NOT North versus South - it's urban versus metropolitian. Basically only the wealthy (elite gentry) were 'educated' per se - formally that is, with the vast bulk of the population winging it.

He's had some excellent books and articles, but I think he missed the boat in this article - I hope the book will be better.

A wholly disproportionate number of future black leaders and pioneers in many fields came out of the relatively few and small enclaves of Northern culture deliberately planted in the post-Civil War South. What they did worked and what the multiculturalists are doing today repeatedly fails.

I think here is where Mr. Sowell misses his mark, the point being that many do not want an 'elitist' education. Elitist being another case of poor/Southern/rednecks being told what to think by presumably enlightened yankees.

That's the reason many FLED England and the British Isles.

86 posted on 05/05/2005 5:23:44 PM PDT by 4CJ (Good-bye Henry LeeII. Rest well my FRiend. || Quoting Lincoln OR JimRob is a bannable offense.)
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