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• W794267627 abstract "WHEN I MET MY WIFE, GEORGANNE, I TOLD HER I WAS IN ILLINOIS temporarily, that I would soon be going home to the South. Almost two score years later, I am back home in South Carolina, but I find that Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) was right: can't go home again. Wolfe's protagonist returns home to discover that no can go back to a life once seemed everlasting but of course is changing all the (1) Life means change, and history is the study of change over time. Finally back in the South, I find that some of today's best and brightest young scholars argue that the South is no longer out of the ordinary--that southern exceptionalism, as a recent collection of essays contends, is a myth. [T]he notion of the exceptional South has served as a myth, they argue, one that has persistently distorted our understanding of American history. (2) The debate about southern exceptionalism is not merely academic; it has a direct and important implication for current and future public policies that will shape America's destiny for generations to come. As I was writing this essay, I served as an expert witness in four voting rights or civil rights cases involving four southern states, cases in which southern history retains a shocking relevance. Nearly all the contributors to The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism were born after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They grew up amid conflicts over affirmative action, busing, and at-large elections, and not over separate restrooms and drinking fountains, segregated schools and mills, and the right to vote. (3) Sadly, the idea that the South is an exceptional and racist Other has functioned to allow white northerners to deny their own racism, so these academics feel the need to prove the South is not the exception. Instead, historians need to show how race works differently in different regions. Like most scholars, these mythbusters mostly are not from rural areas or even small towns of the South but grew up in county seats or cities or suburbs, of which they write so authoritatively. Perhaps those urban American experiences have limited their understanding of a wider picture. (4) While cities and suburbs have grown exponentially, the small-town and rural South should not be ignored. Get off the interstates that link the big cities and college campuses in the region today, turn on to of the bobbing and weaving, rising and falling, state roads, where people reckon their whereabouts by the local church, or store, or cemetery, or the single stoplight up where the road forks and where the oak tree used to be, and you'll find all the exceptionalism you can wish for. It is perfectly reasonable that each generation of historians needs to figure out its own interpretation, to bring its own perspectives to bear on historical issues, and these scholars are right to do so. Our experiences and circumstances provide different points of view, and we can learn from each other. In that regard, I would like to pay tribute to those who most influenced my own intellectual heritage. My two Ph.D. advisers were southerner F. Sheldon Hackney and Yankee James M. McPherson, whose ideas remain just as relevant today as when I was introduced to them in 1969. Arguing against southern exceptionalism and placing the South and American history in global perspective, McPherson wrote that it was the North that was 'different,' the North that departed from the mainstream of historical development; and perhaps therefore we should speak not of Southern exceptionalism but of Northern (5) According to Hackney, however, southerners traditionally have had to define themselves in opposition to a presumed American norna. (6) I contend that both sentiments are true and that, understood together, the insights of McPherson and Hackney are key to explaining southern exceptionalism. I like to fish. …" @default.
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• W794267627 title "The South as Other, the Southerner as Stranger" @default.
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