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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
Great article...thanks. Interesting that at the same time we can see this lack of nobility, many in the south (and of that belief system) seem to hold so high the concept of "honor".
Then again, the Hatfields and McCoys was all about honor as well.
Thus...in a similar vein:
http://isach.info/story.php?story=ou...ll&chapter=007 |
The Planter antebellum culture was bizarre indeed. Osterweis'
Romanticism and Nationalism in the Old South is excellent.
The Lost Cause culture that began to grow shortly after the war and acheived full bloom by the turn of the century is equally bizarre.