“The rev­o­lu­tion the South for­got. Life is grim today for South­ern work­ers, and it has a lot to do with a mas­sacre many have forgotten.”

The arti­cle is spot on. This is not a debate against or opposed to Mr. Winant’s arti­cle. I’ll quote some of its salient points it in a bit but first I have a reac­tion, a gut-​level local reac­tion. Yes­ter­day, here in my lit­tle town in North Car­olina, the Rural South which bears all the stereo­types of the South right down to the in-​breeding jokes, I met a Yan­kee from Wilm­ing­ton, Delaware. Con­tinue read­ing →

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