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

[Joseph Catron]

You are confusing historical roles. To borrow Michael's terms, the English
Cavaliers were, in broad strokes, the slaveholders, not the Scotch-Irish
borderers, who were always more prevalent in Appalachia and other regions
poorly suited for plantation-scale agriculture.

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:37 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:

CB: 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.
>

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