Posted on 06/26/2007 5:17:28 PM PDT by Mamzelle
Over the past months of this nightmare of immigration scofflawry, listening to the rhetoric from the aristocratic Republican elites--I’ve been carried back to the Magnolia Melodramas I enjoyed reading as a teenager. Gwen Bristow’s “Plantation Trilogy”; Frank Yerby’s “The Foxes of Harrow” and the magnificent mother of them all--Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The Wind.”
George Bush once said, “I’m not a southerner, I’m a southwesterner.” He was trying to distance himself from the south and the taint of racism, a “compassionate” insult to every southerner who voted for him. But he has every resemblence to the linen-suited julep-drinking Massa of the Old South.
And the dynamic of the Elites verses Middle-class Conservatives is exactly like the plantation owner and his nearest inelegant neighbors...White Trash. Scots-Irish subsistence farmers couldn’t afford to the leisured fineries of the Planter Class because they were trying to eke out an existence in competition with the institution of slavery.
Remember the characters of the Slatterys and the Macintoshes, Gerald and Scarlett O’Hara’s WT neighbors? Not only did the O’Haras hold them in contempt for being so hardscrabble, tacky and rough-textured, but the slaves themselves of the plantations held themselves in higher esteem than “po’ whites.”
And the Massa with the Big Heart dearly loved his servants, loved condescending to them--What treasures! Just like members of the family! Not that he set them free, or ate at the same table. There are limits to paternalism and noblesse oblige. But Massa and Missus were unfailingly thankful that Mammy and Pork picked up Scotty’s poop off the Big House lawn.
The irony--it’s the Southern middle class that makes up a lot of the soldiers who trusted him enough to serve in Iraq.
George Bush thinks he can afford to openly display the contempt he has always felt for Joe Redneck...er...Sixpack. His chief overseer, Tony Snow, let us in on the secret in the wee hours after election day. He can now concentrate on indulging his oozing childhood sentimentality by handing his house servants a deed to America.
I’m reminded of another scene from Gone With The Wind--Scarlett was being lectured by an elderly matriarch about Trash. “And when you’re done with them--kick them away and do it thoroughly, because Trash clinging to your coattails can ruin you.”
I have entered into many discussions about illegal immigration with a comment--housework and yardwork are political. This is a class issue between overlord elites who can’t conceive of a life spent actually cleaning up after themselves. They break the laws, then have to justify the transgression by accusing the law of being bad. That’s why they become insulting and defensive when requested to obey the law.
I’m done with Bush. I don’t trust him--or any member of his Indolent family.
It’s Bushs’ fault.
I won’t lift a finger to defend this man even if he is right.
I’m a bigot, nativist and xenophobe, therefore unqualified to defend him.
ibtz....
good rant, though......lots of assumptions
read this see #2:
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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!
Very perceptive.
Well, ibtz is at least in for a moment. What an awful day—almost as bad as election day.
It’s a day to rant. And I happen to agree with your point of view.
Actually, New Haven is in the south west part of Connecticut.
Mamzelle, you shore can write!
But we is ain’t we?
I’m not sure Southerners think Texas is part of the South.
Of all the complaints you could make about the man, this is perhaps one of the silliest.
Eh, I don’t care for that rant, in a way it typecasts in a manner that Jorge’ is doing.
My .02 cents, mini anti rant over.../r/o
I’m done with Bush. I don’t trust him—
Nor do we. We are finished as well. No more support from this voter.
GTT was found scratched in many a deserted Southern door.
Well, I think we’ve all just been ...and will be again...raped by the massa’....
I wish I could leave my kids as good a country as my parents left me....but it isn’t to be.
George didn’t kick the poor white trash far enough away. Daddy hangs out with Bill Clinton.
If I say I’m from the West, is that a slap to southwesterners? I don’t believe the President was trying to do anything but clarify. If someone thinks that someone is from Louisiana rather than Mississippi, would the Missisiippian take umbrage? It is the same analogy as the New Zealanders versus the Aussies. Don’t get them confused. They are proud of who they are.
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