Since the Michigan area and the South were largely settled by people from different areas of Europe, maybe she could tell "southerners" (why the square quotes?) by their appearance. I can usually tell if somebody is British as opposed to German by looking at them.
--- On Sun, 10/11/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] corporate rationality
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Sunday, October 11, 2009, 10:30 PM
>
> On Oct 11, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > My mother
> > was a Michigan fruit farmer's daugher. Before the war
> their main labor
> > force was white migrant southerners (always called
> "Arkies"). In a
> > conversation with her once I discovered she believed
> that she could tell
> > "southerners" by their appearance. She had in fact
> "racialized" white
> > southerners.
>
> What's specifically capitalist about this? Haven't yokels
> always been suspicious of the folks from over the hill?
>
> Doug
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