[lbo-talk] The North's burden of enlightening the South (was Re: The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth)

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 18 17:01:53 PST 2007


On Nov 18, 2007 5:40 PM, Carl Remick <carlremick at gmail.com> wrote:


> That's the problem. Southerners are *not* losers. You'd have every
> reason to believe the Confederacy was the actual victor of the Civil
> War the way Southern cultural norms -- anti-intellectualism,
> hyper-religiosity, veneration of the military, hostility to organized
> labor, etc. -- have come to define US society as a whole.

How sure are you that the rest of the US needed to be taught all these fine traditions?

-- Andy



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