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

[Miles Jackson]

Carl Remick wrote:
>
>
> Bingo!  That's the only rational interpretation of the South's
> contribution to the arts.  "Southern society" -- which was of course a
> white oligarchy that enslaved or terrorized blacks and controlled all
> government, justice and the economy -- was simply the grit the
> produced the pearl of black jazz.  I am unaware of white Southerners
> making any direct positive cultural contributions at all with the
> possible exception of pecan pie.  As for white Southern writers, you
> can have them.  Offhand the only Southern novelist I can think of
> (besides Mark Twain, who cleared out of the region pronto) who wasn't
> a Gothic bore or morbid eccentric was Walker Percy, and he thought the
> South was pretty much a waste of space himself.
>
>   
Faulkner?

Miles