[lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jul 18 09:54:37 PDT 2010


On Jul 18, 2010, at 12:37 PM, c b wrote:


> Probably , a complementary reductionist (but valid) argument,
> with this component a stronger influence than the history back in
> Britain, is that the Southern culture was prone to violence because so
> much violence had to be deployed to conquer the Indigenous Peoples and
> suppress and work the African slaves. The honor thing is just a
> shockingly hypocritical and phony rationale.

I love how many people are commenting on this paper without having actually read it. Don't let me stop you - carry on. It's kind of funny.

Doug



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