NewsFix
Would you like to react to this message? Create an account in a few clicks or log in to continue.

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

Go down

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Empty “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

Post by Guest Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:36 am

William Faulkner wrote that. And as a Southerner (the chronicler of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi), he knew whereof he wrote. The New York Times reports on the goings-on in my little town of Lexington in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The largely-liberal town itself (as opposed to the region) isn’t all that divided on the matter of Confederate flags, however.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQV-YqYQo48


I arrived back in town from the Arizona desert late Friday night and missed the MLK march on Saturday morning, but my sister, her husband and their daughter participated. I only wish the Confederate nostalgists understood the extent to which the Civil War on the Southern side was, as people even then were saying, “A rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.”

Anti-secession and anti-Confederate sentiment among poorer non-slaveowning whites in the South was widespread and intense. In fact half a million white Southerners fought for the Union. (See Bitterly Divided: The South’s Inner Civil War by David Williams.)

http://hurryupharry.org/2017/01/16/the-past-is-never-dead-its-not-even-past/

Guest
Guest


Back to top Go down

Back to top

- Similar topics

 
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum