[lbo-talk] my weekend in "real" virginia

[Dorene Cornwell]

My pitiful memory of US history east of the Mississippi: weren't the
Appalachians settled by a a lot of "po' white trash," teeming masses from
the British Isles who were not terribly wealthy or enlightened when they
arrived and did not automatically upgrade themselves on this side of the
pond? As I recall they came in pretty opressed by the British class system
and one key basis for feeling human about themselves was being better'n
those n-words.

Okay , I KNOW the picture is more complicated than that, but....

DC

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > Well the whole state was the capital of the Confederacy, and though
> Virginia
> > is the whitest of the southern states (or close to it), the eastern
> portion
> > does have a fairly large black pop. So it mustn't be just about the
> > Confederacy - there must be something particularly insular and
> unwelcoming
> > about the hillbillies.
>
> I thought a lot of the geographic distribution had something to do
> with who could and couldn't afford slaves.
>
>
> --
> Andy
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