by "Brooks Simpson" <bdsimpson_7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jan 12, 2007 at 01:36 PM
Cash wrote:
> I found the following quotation from the book interesting. Elizabeth
> Fortson Arroyo is quoted as saying, "What could be more Southern than
> to obsess about being Southern?"
>
> What do folks think? Is it quintissentially Southern to obsess about
> being Southern?
I think so. It's an interesting mix of smugness and insecurity. Part
of it, no doubt, is also a pathological need to compare "the South" (an
intellectual and cultural construct) to "the North" (even more
intellectual and less cultural, given greater Northern diversity and
the people and places that don't fit in either construct).
