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

[John Adams]

On Nov 18, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Carl Remick 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.

"Betcha didn't know the South won the Civil War!"

      --Dr. Harry "Happy" Cox, "Everything You Know Is Wrong"