The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South and Why It Will Rise Again
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The author displays exactly the kind of sectional bigotry he rails against, continually putting down "Yankees" and
A loathsome narcissistic diatribe filled with the usual half-truths, distortions, and outright lies (come across below). Johnson is just another Lost Causer who tin can't stand up beingness on the incorrect side of history. Utterly useless for students, given the full lack of citations or primary sources. But then, such a volume is not intended to inform or persuade, simply to reinforce existing prejudices.The writer displays exactly the kind of sectional bigotry he runway confronting, continually putting downwardly "Yankees" and lumping them all together...unless he likes them, at which point he makes them "honorary Southerners". Mayhap the residue of the nation wouldn't be then quick to stereotype the South if Southerners like Mr Johnson weren't so quick to fulfill those stereotypes.
Half-truth: Lincoln and the North didn't fight the war over slavery.
Reality: Lincoln and many Northerners fought the war to preserve the Union, which was in danger of being divided OVER SLAVERY.
Distortion: rising tariffs were an important cause of secession.
Reality: the existing Tariff of 1857, ane of the everyman in US history, was written by Virginian (and later Confederate Secretary of State and Senator) Robert Thousand.T. Hunter. Also, Louisiana saccharide producers wanted protectionist tariffs (Johnson would be apoplectic at this thought, seeing equally how he is a devotee of Mr Austrian School Low-cal himself, the execrable Thomas DiLorenzo).
Lie: the Confederacy did non instigate aggressive activeness towards the U.s. from April to December 1861.
Reality: the Confederacy invaded New Mexico Territory in July 1861 and tried to ready their own Arizona Territory.
The book is peppered with little sidebars, similar "Books Y'all Aren't Supposed to Read". Included in one of these is Huckleberry Finn, which is a standard in high schoolhouse curricula, and so to claim that evil liberals are trying to suppress it is hard to consume. As well, Marker Twain was a socialist, making this a rather odd recommendation from a rabid right-winger.
Read this book if you desire unsourced quotes devoid of context, either meta- or literal. Read it for the spectacle of willful stupidity. Read information technology for the snobbery of victimhood at the easily of those whom you turn around and call snobs. But don't expect anything else.
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What the PC Police don't want you lot to know--and what they got evidently wrong--virtually the South
From the Founding Fathers to the frontiersmen who tamed the West to the country music, NASCAR, Biblethumping heart of "Red State" America, the Southward is the quintessence of what'south original, unique, and almost loved near American culture. And with its accent on traditional values, family, faith, military ser
This is the Best BOOK EVER!!!! READ Information technology! No affair if you're from the Northward or the South!! READ Information technology!!! :)What the PC Police don't want you lot to know--and what they got plain wrong--about the Southward
From the Founding Fathers to the frontiersmen who tamed the W to the land music, NASCAR, Biblethumping heart of "Red State" America, the South is the quintessence of what's original, unique, and well-nigh loved about American civilization. And with its emphasis on traditional values, family, organized religion, military service, good manners, pocket-sized government, and contained-minded people, the South is just plain more than livable than the Due north--which is i reason why millions of Yankees, white and blackness, take been moving downward South in droves.
The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to the South gives yous the facts behind scores of revelations similar these:
· How Southerners led the way in drafting the Proclamation of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights
· How the Northern victory led to today'south anointed federal government
· Why race relations in today's South are much ameliorate than in the North--or anywhere else in America
· Why the South is naturally conservative (and the North is naturally liberal)
· How American jazz, blues, and rock and curlicue all came from the South
· Why Southerners are overrepresented in the military--and no, it's non poverty
· The best American literature? Southern, of grade
"The S is all about memory, heritage, and pride of place," writes Clint Johnson. "I turn down to continue with the expunging of that memory, heritage, and pride, and I hope the readers of this volume, Northern and Southern, will ascension up and join me in protesting those who are trying to exercise it."
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T Our worst stereotypes are of those whom we think we know but we don't. Removing such prejudices is hard because we have very piddling incentive to find out more than information since we are a "country of rest" when information technology comes to interests of knowing more virtually the particular group we think we know. I believe that Southern people and culture is i such example for many not-Southerners. I say this as someone from the Due west Coast who was exposed to Southern ways for the start time when I was in the Marines.
This is a book most the South. Of course the topic of racism is in the back of the readers heed and early in the book the author is frank to disavow any support of racism and even said that not everything most the South is right when information technology comes to the topic of racism. This helps for an outsider to hear this. But similar anything in life there are other complexity to account for and also other things of Southern civilisation and society that is good.
The author goes on in the book to show how the South is not all backward equally some may assume. For example, currently Southern states have increasing rate of minorities moving in versus the decrease of minority population in the rest of region of the United States and in particular the more than liberal Northeastern part of the state. This was something I have never heard of before, being only familiar with the flight of African Americans from the Southern in sure era of American history. The book too talks about how the South has grown every bit an economical powerhouse and certain part of its subculture take become a part of what defines America.
Besides food, sports, patriotism (Southerners historically contribute a lot to our armed forces and still exercise), the part that interests me the most in the volume is the topic of history. While the section on faith was interesting to me as a Pastor, it'due south the history that the book devotes the most time to.
The volume give-and-take of the Civil War is excellent as information technology reveal the complexity of the origin of the war. I remember this book and other literature I have read demonstrate that the North wasn't necessarily going to war to free the slaves as our popular narrative likes to tell information technology. The N was equally equally racist during that fourth dimension equally the South is. One should besides indicate out that the North's handling of those in their industry wasn't necessarily better than the S with their slaves and at times could be worst than those in the Southward with their Patriarchal ways (observing this is not to condone information technology). Today people gloat and call up African American'due south contribution in the Northern Army simply we can easily forget that at that place were minorities in the Amalgamated ground forces as well. The volume discusses Jews and blacks in the Confederate army. "Black Southerners in Grey" is a wonderful chapter. Sometimes people forget that people can fight in a war for various reasons and that just because 1 support one reason (for states rights for example) doesn't necessarily mean they fought for another reason.
The book also talks virtually the Due north'due south atrocities confronting blacks besides past the Northern Army. I acknowledge this was a harder part for me to read but we must let history speak instead of conforming history to our expectations. The book also discussed the tryanical means of the North such equally Lincoln jailing Maryland legislature, and the President issuing warrants against the Chief Justice (fortunately no Marshall agreed to carry out the warrants). The North also forced a lot of immigrants to fight in a war that they didn't know nearly. The writer too discussed the horrific ways the Northward fought against the Due south and how the Northward introduced total warfare past attacking civilians and the land rather than just the Southern Army. Call back "Sherman's march to bounding main," and other policies similar information technology. Nigh people may not realize information technology, but the Northern generals Sherman and Grant were against Emancipation Proclamation.
There is then much more than that I learned in the book and I recommend it.
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The book covers the history of the Due south, but information technology especially on the War for Southern Independence; it talks most aspects of Southern society, politics and civilisation. There are many stories hither that will no doubt astonish you, for they are not taught in public schools and are kept silent by the politically right watchdogs. It'southward amazing how the masses tin be kept ignorant and manipulated past just a few. We say "We, the People" but we mean "they, the government".
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This volume certainly covers Southern heroism during the State of war Between the States and related issues, but it does and then much more. It looks at Southern chivalry (which is alive almost nowhere else), Southern hospitality,
With a Southern wife who has lived in Arkansas, Tennessee and Virginia I had somewhen to read this book! Thankfully, I take been a fan of the South since my late teens and take understood since then that loving the Confederacy has cipher to do with supporting slavery every bit it was and so.This volume certainly covers Southern heroism during the State of war Betwixt united states of america and related problems, but it does so much more. Information technology looks at Southern chivalry (which is alive almost nowhere else), Southern hospitality, Southern values and everything else that makes the S then great. You'll also learn a bit nearly barbecuing, NASCAR, beer, hunting, guns and Conservatism.
A fun and inspiring read.
Loved information technology.
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PS The series claims to exist "Politically Incorrect" but really it should be chosen "An Extremists Point Of View of..."
I jokingly accept stated that this book should exist required reading for any northerner earlier being granted a visa or green-bill of fare to live or work in the Southward. This is just half joking, since information technology would prosper anyone profoundly who wants to understand the Southern heed and the Southern manner of life. Y'all see, the more the media establishment attempts to eradicate Southern heritage and the Southern way of life, the more those with Southern blood dig their heels in. Johnson does the not-Southerner a favor by taking y'all into the Southern mind and giving you a practiced old tour and by the finish, yous will thank him. Upon finishing this volume, the reader will better understand what Southerners are trying to hold onto and why they are and so determined to do and then. In fact, yous only might sympathize so well that non only volition you non desire to destroy all things Southern, you just might want to become a Southerner yourself.
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I read this volume (and the P.I.K. to the Southward) for a project I was doing for my English form back in my terminal twelvemonth of school. Both of these books were wonderfully written, in a rather amusing mode that reminisced a lilliputian of the Dummi
As a person who seeks the truth of all matters, these Politically Incorrect Guides are like holy testaments. Sort of. More often than not speaking, though, they actually do 'tell the other side of the story' that we don't get in most history books, or really at all, anywhere.I read this volume (and the P.I.K. to the Due south) for a project I was doing for my English class back in my last year of school. Both of these books were wonderfully written, in a rather amusing style that reminisced a little of the Dummies guide books.
This book, the guide to the due south, finally explained some things to me that I'd been wondering about for a really long time. Why Laura Ingalls Wilder'due south parents, for instance, weren't happy when the song 'Dixie' was played, in one of the Trivial House books, equally well as a whole agglomeration of other conundrums. Perhaps if you grow up in the South, it's not and so much of a problem, but having grown up in the sun-filled valley and beaches of California, my experiences were all coming through the media.
All the same, I am glad for this volume, for putting things down so clearly and understandably. Specially all the book and moving picture references information technology gives.
This serial is certainly an splendid identify to starting time (or finish) for anyone interested in the real deal!
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Read it and find out well-nigh this much-maligned region of our country. The topics range from fun, ie. How to distinguish Kentucky barbecue from Carolina barbeque, to serious, truthful assessments of slavery and the War Between the States, and refutations of some politically correct myths that surround the teaching of these subjects. This book volition teach you a lot well-nigh Southern values and history. It is a great tribute to this culturally rich region that is looked upon past many in the nation as a cultural backwater.
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Brand no fault about it, this book is apologetically Southern. The writer presents The South in a positive but necessary light. I say that because the region gets a bad rap in the mainstream media. I was built-in and raised in S Texas and so my culture was a little different than the one in The Deep Due south. I lived in Alabama for ii years and traveled all over the southern states; I learned all the stereotypes I had heard growing upwards virtually The South were completely untrue.I recommend this book for people not from The S; it is an heart opening experience and the author gives volume recommendations for further reading. The book can get a little preachy at times but it's non meant to be a scholarly work. Information technology's more of an introduction to a misunderstood region of America. A lot of the negative reviews if not all of them are past people not from The South or accept never lived there. It is a fairly easy read and the author has a flare most him that is reminiscent of a Southerner.
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I did learn a fair bit about Slavery and the Civil War. It's possible to lay much of that arraign on the Northward. The Aggression of the North (while attacking and burning southern homes and towns AND slaves over political regime). Yes, freeing slaves was a very recent affair that the Nort
A fun introduction to the South. Possibly biased of course- but nothing is ever that simple or black and white. Sure, the South has the Duke boys, merely there's always a Dominate Hogg who is a Southern staple also.I did learn a fair fleck about Slavery and the Civil War. It's possible to lay much of that blame on the North. The Aggression of the North (while attacking and called-for southern homes and towns AND slaves over political authorities). Yes, freeing slaves was a very contempo thing that the North was politically self-righteous about and used as political propaganda. Abe Lincoln was no Saint. Some say a racist power-mad warmonger.
Sadly, freeing 4 million slaves into the burned economically destroyed South isn't every bit noble as many would call back. Black folks were even so suffering in the N from this new found oppression and race riots.
Is the General Lee flag fully to blame? Barely. The Northern Slaveships surely weren't flying that flag.
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However if, like me, you lot are already neck deep in 1860's history this book is really not worth reading.
This one hails and honors the American S and all that is good about it, without wallowing in apologetic misery about what was incorrect well-nigh information technology. A flake too much on the Civil State of war, but Southerners will like that more than others.
This entire line of books is incredibly good, chocked total of data you normally don't find in history books or classes, giving new lite to "accepted" history.This one hails and honors the American South and all that is good about it, without wallowing in atoning misery well-nigh what was incorrect most information technology. A flake besides much on the Ceremonious War, only Southerners volition like that more than others.
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PS: Jeffy Davis loved himself some Jews and Honest Abe wasn't too addicted of blackness folks. I know that the USA victory over the CSA was ultimately a good thing, Merely this book explains the whole debaucle from the Southern point of view. If you are a fan of history and are reticent to eat everything academia tells you near the Civil War, check it out.
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Clint lives in the mountains of North Carolina with his wife Barb.
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