“For a century after losing the Civil War, the South was America’s own colonial backwater — ‘not quite a nation within a nation, but the next thing to it,’ W.J. Cash wrote in his classic 1941 study, ‘The Mind of the South’…. “Cash has this description of ‘the South at its best’: ‘proud, brave, honorable […]
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New Yorker rediscovers South according to W. J. Cash
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged george packer, southern politics, the new yorker, w j cash on January 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »