Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History

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Notes Introduction 1. Phyllis Trible, ‘‘God’s Ghostwriters,’’ New York Times Book Review, February 4, 2001; see also Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (New York: The Free Press, 2001). 2. Trible, ‘‘God’s Ghostwriters.’’ 3. Leon Wieseltier, ‘‘Sorry,’’ The New Republic 222, March 27, 2000, p. 6. 4. George B. Tindall, The Ethnic Southerners (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976), 21. 5. Michael O’Brien, ‘‘On Observing the Quicksand,’’ American Historical Review 104 (October 1999): 1203. 6. Pamela L. Moore, ‘‘Banking in a Backwater?’’ Charlotte Observer, April 19, 1998. 7. Ibid. 8. Kim McLarin, ‘‘Feeling at Home South of the Mason-Dixon,’’ New York Times, December 13, 1998. 9. Larry J. Griffin, ‘‘Southern Distinctiveness, Yet Again, or Why America Still Needs the South,’’ Southern Cultures 6 (Fall 2000): 57. 10. Flannery O’Connor, ‘‘Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction,’’ in Flannery O’Connor: Mystery and Manners, ed. Sally and Robert Fitzgerald (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979), 40; see also Albert Mobilio, ‘‘Biloxi Bound,’’ New York Times Book Review, April 9, 2000, p. 18; Larry Brown, Fay (Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000). 11. John Shelton Reed, ‘‘Where is the South?’’ Southern Cultures 5 (Summer 1999): 117. 12. O’Brien, ‘‘On Observing the Quicksand,’’ 1202; the quiz can be accessed at http:// www.ibiblio.org/uncpress/quiz/. 13. Fox Butterfield, ‘‘The Curse of the South,’’ Charlotte Observer, August 2, 1998; see also, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982). 339 340 Notes to Pages 11–20 14. John Shelton Reed, ‘‘The Central Theme,’’ Southern Cultures 5 (Winter 1999): 96–8; Ed Williams, ‘‘The Bible Belt on the Cusp of the Millennium,’’ Charlotte Observer, May 16, 1999. 15. Yoder quoted in James C. Cobb, Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999), 142; C. Vann Woodward, Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986), 108. 16. Cobb, Redefining Southern Culture, 142. 17. U.S. National Emergency Council, Report on Economic Conditions of the South (Washington , D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1938), 1. 18. One of the best-argued recent works of this genre is Peter Applebome’s Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture (New York: Times Books, 1996). Historian Michael O’Brien has offered a telling critique of the view that southern culture and politicians are taking over America. O’Brien asserts that ‘‘southern ideological exports tends to have their labels removed. Southern religion becomes in California a blow-dried evangelicalism, the neo-Confederate becomes in Arizona genetically conservative, the Arkansas governor becomes a president of multicultural vagueness, the old blunt talk about ‘slew-footed Senegambians ’ . . . becomes the oblique codes of the Willie Horton advertisement. . . . If the South were to show up on the doorstep of American culture and openly say, I’m here, move over, imitate me, southerners know that doors would slam in their faces.’’ O’Brien, ‘‘The Apprehension of the South in Modern Culture,’’ Southern Cultures 4 (Winter 1998): 11. 19. Warner quoted in Paul M. Gaston, The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking (New York: Knopf, 1970), 334; George B. Tindall, ‘‘Beyond the Mainstream: The Ethnic Southerners,’’ Journal of Southern History 40 (February 1974): 1. Chapter 1: The Past Is 1. Barry Hannah, Ray (New York: Knopf, 1980), 41. 2. William Faulkner, quoted in Lewis P. Simpson, ‘‘William Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha,’’ in The American South: Portrait of a Culture, ed. Louis D. Rubin (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 243. 3. Ben Robertson, Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory (1942; rev. ed., Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1960), 245. 4. Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Peter S. Onuf, All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 12. 5. On this point, see Michael O’Brien, ‘‘On Observing the Quicksand,’’ American Historical Review 104 (October 1999): 1204. 6. Frank W. Owsley, quoted in Charles F. Roland, An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991), 113. 7. Warren, quoted in Grace Elizabeth Hale, ‘‘We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place: Tony Horwitz Tours the Civil War South,’’ Southern Cultures 5 (Spring 1999): 58. 8. Quoted in David Gold...