Posted on 05/05/2010 10:52:47 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
“Things reveal themselves passing away,” someone remarked to William Butler Yeats, and it is an historical fact that every established order writes its great apologia only after it has been fatally stricken. – Richard M. Weaver
In the passage above, Weaver was writing about the passing of the American South, its rooted feudalism, its chivalry, its attachment to the land and its deeply religious nature. In pre-Civil War America, the South was a civilization apart; more closely akin to that of Europe than to the Puritan North. And it is true, that if there is a place in the world which understands how long established tradition can be quickly obliterated, never to return, it is the South. Nor is there any place in the world more universally reviled, except of course Israel, than the American South.
One source of acrimony lies in the fact that the Southern section has refused to bend its knee to the new nihilistic scientism - sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and all the rest. It has stubbornly resisted the inevitable and de-humanizing rise of industrial materialism and held tightly to the family farm, to small towns and to church. [The South has clung to “guns and God” out of fear of progress, according to President Obama.] But that is not the whole story.
(Excerpt) Read more at newenglishreview.org ...
That is so true. For instance, we are going to know a great deal about Obama once he is out of power.
(I did read the article, but got diverted by the first line , sorry)
The thing that REALLY galls the elitists about the South: We Southerners TRULY don’t give a flying f-bomb about your opinion of us.
We are very happy with our simple lives and want to be left alone....
But unfortunately for us the destruction he is going to bring is going to have more of our focus.
The thing that REALLY galls the elitists about the South: We Southerners TRULY don’t give a flying f-bomb about your opinion of us.
We are very happy with our simple lives and want to be left alone....
and our habit of double posting...
Far from being a bastion of tradition and religion, the Confederate movers and shakers were often driven by a crude social Darwinism to justify their greedy ways. Alexander Stephens’ “Cornerstone” speech contains some notable expressions of this mindset.
“Even while Confederate soldiers starved, they refused to take anything from the civilian populace.”
Good article. Howsomever, the author should read up on General Morgan and the Confederate Kentucky Cavalry(Alligator Horse) that he led. General Morgan led his troops into Indiana and Ohio. They helped themselves to civilian goods on more than one occasion.
They did not, however, conduct a scorched earth policy like Sheridan or Sherman.
That quote probably came from Weaver’s The Southern Tradition At Bay, or Southern Essays.
IIRC Weaver taught English at a university in Chicago.
I might have agreed before Baraq Hussein mohammed 0bama [aka Barry Soetoro] established his dictatorial regime - now
The South Will Rise Again!
"Southern man don't need him around"
Must have been a different group of reb soldiers than those in the vicinity of Cleveland, Tennessee on October 26, 1863. For in her diary entry of that day, the strongly pro-Confederate teenager Myra Inman complains:
"...We will have plenty of corn, potatoes, tallow, pumpkins and nearly enough meat to do us another year if we can only keep it from our soldiers. The soldiers are ruining Uncle Caswell, taking his corn burning his rails and killing his hogs."
If rebel soldiers did this to a prominent Confderate family, you have to wonder how they would treat the property of Yankees and Southern Uniuonists.
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"... I can personally attest that the relations between the races here in the South are much less strained than in liberal, progressive California..."
I have a friend who is from Chicago and he will be the first to tell you that people up in his neck of the woods are much more racist than in the South...
I was amazed to see the racism of Southern California after growing up in Texas.
It is funny that the liberal/progressive” types are far less likely to live among blacks than conservatives.
My guess is the same way they were treated by Sheridan and Sherman.
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