Carl Remick writes:
>>>>>As I said long ago on the list, it was insane
for the North to fight to hold onto the South, then and now a hopelessly
backward region peopled by poorly educated, violence-prone, anti-labor,
religious loonies. The US today has a savage, reactionary, simple-minded
popular and political culture in large part because of Grant & Co.'s
triumphantly counterproductive efforts to keep the benighted South forever
affixed to the long-suffering North.
I totally agree with you Carl. Except I think that, if I were an American, which thankfully I am not, I would be proud to count Faulkner as one of my compatriots.
Albert R. Sonntag berto55 at earthlink.net