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To: Ilaine who wrote (20067)	2/26/2002 6:00:31 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It's irrelevant to the glory part, which focuses on the intellectual argument that the South had the right to secede and form a new nation based on the theory that the Constitution was a compact which could be abrogated for good cause That would seem to tie in with the "states rights" line. I've had some trouble coming up with any particular "states rights" the South cared about other that the right to keep slaves and expand the slaveholding domain. The antebellum South sure didn't seem to think much of "states rights" in the Fugitive Slave Act context. As for the trailer trash aspect, it's true that the plantation way of live was rather, um, upper crust oriented. It must have taken some, er, subtle indoctrination to convince the white majority that the interests of the plantation class coincided with the interests of the non-slaveholding majority. Good political lessons were learned then that seem to hold up well in certain areas of the country to this day. I confess to being somewhat blind to the nuances of Southern sensibilities. Having grown up with the "Birth of a Nation"/ "Gone with the Wind" school of official Southern historiography, in Catholic approved textbooks in a way-north state in my youth, I really don't want to think too much about what people grow up with in the South, even today. Trent Lott didn't seem all that apologetic about his long running white-supremecist associations, when they surfaced recently, any more than W seemed embarrassed to wrap himself in the Confederate flag, when it was politically expedient. Somehow, the whole issue of Southern gentility sort of leaves me cold.