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--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I grew up down South, and while if I never cross the
> Mason-Dixon line again it will be too soon (I may
> make
> an exception for New Orleans), I am more than aware
> of
> Dixie's contributions to US culture. Insofar as the
> US
> has a native artistic culture that isn't Jewish, it
> is
> largely Southern. Never mind Janis Joplin, listen to
> the people she listened too. The blues, Big Mama
> Thornton (Joplin's most direct inpiration),
> bluegrass,
> old-timy, and country music, rock n roll (Elvis,
> Jerry
> Lee Lewis, Roy Obison, and Carl Perkins were all
> Memphis products of Sun Records), jazz (originally
> N.O. whorehouse, gambling house and riverboat music,
> and most of the great jazz musicians were rural
> southerners even if they made their names on 52nd
> St.), much of soul music (Stax records, also
> Memphis),
> literature -- yes, we kin read n rite down in Dixie,
> if not as good as yew -- Mark Twain! William
> Faulkner!
> James Agee! Flannery O'Connor! Who, when asked why
> Southern writers whote about the groteseque, said,
> "At
> least we know it when we see it."
>
> At the same down, Dixie's full of deep fried shit,
> iggerant redneck stupidity, pompous phony aristo
> GWTW
> pretension, no-brow militaristic reaction, puffed up
> pseudo-patriotism, fascistic Taliban-style
> fundamentalism, and racist bigotry. Not to mention
> Nashville-style "country music" that celebrates all
> that crap. So Dixie deserves every bit of dishing
> that
> it gets. The main problem with it is that Sherman
> (the
> first president of LSU -- really!) didn't do a
> thorough enough job. He stated at one point that
> nothing was going to improve down there if they
> didn't
> shoot the entire white southern aristocracy. It's
> definitely a thought.
>
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