To: cnyndwllr who wrote (191881 ) 6/17/2012 3:19:53 PM From: JohnM Read Replies (1) | Respond to But that's the point, assuming that a vote against the 64 civil rights act was "anti-intellectual," then Gore, who clearly was intellectual, voted against it because the majority of the people who voted him into office weren't. I.e., the south was anti-intellectual. Ed As you might guess, I've concluded sometime back that the use of the term "anti-intellectual" hardly encompasses the place this discussion has taken us. And you can feel it in the obvious stretch you are trying to make with this post. Highlander School . Does the singular fact that it was never burned down but continued to operate, effectively, through the 50s and 60s, and, for that matter still exists today, evidence of an "intellectual" presence in Tennessee and enough resonance to say it damages an argument that the south is anti-intellectual. I hardly know but it does make such blanket assertions hard to maintain.
