Posted on 05/05/2005 4:47:23 AM PDT by Tolik
Sounds interesting..
yeah
I'm used to the old JWR photo.
I know too well about callaloo. It's about the most aesthetically unpleasing food you will ever see.
I'm going there later this month. I'll have to put your theories to the test.
BTW, what kind of doubles do you want when I come back? ;)
hmmm, I have more specifics but guessing you don't really want to know. I'll check out the book, thanks.
He's had some excellent books and articles, but I think he missed the boat in this article - I hope the book will be better.
A wholly disproportionate number of future black leaders and pioneers in many fields came out of the relatively few and small enclaves of Northern culture deliberately planted in the post-Civil War South. What they did worked and what the multiculturalists are doing today repeatedly fails.
I think here is where Mr. Sowell misses his mark, the point being that many do not want an 'elitist' education. Elitist being another case of poor/Southern/rednecks being told what to think by presumably enlightened yankees.
That's the reason many FLED England and the British Isles.
Have you read Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer? Fascinating read about migrations from the Br. Isles to four areas in the new world: Mass. Bay, Penn., Appalachia and I believe Tidewater Va.
Takes some of his conclusions to far but by and all a worthwhile read.
I'm going to pick a bone here: Hillbilly music was created in the 20's as a purely commercial vehicle. In fact, performers who showed up in suits were told to go home and put on overalls!
Bluegrass is closer to the Scottish and Scots Irish tunes that were carried over from the old country.
Sorry, it's a pet subject of mine. :)
Peter Wood argues in "Black Majority" that the slaves in South Carolina were better able to maintain their culture because they had less interaction with whites. Of course, that culture in and of itself was a blend of the various african and carribean locales of the slaves.
In the highlands of Appalachia, there was more interaction between whites and blacks, in part because there were far fewer slaves and in part because there were more poor whites. The poor economy meant that slaves and their owners often lived in tight quarters and poor whites and free blacks often lived side by side.
Long winded post to say you are right!
LOL!!! but it's so good for you. It's brain food ;-)
ping
Trust me. You'll enjoy it. I did and I'm an early American History Buff.
That's fine, I knew I had to be a little inaccurate. To my city-slicker ears Bluegrass sounds a little bit "hillbilly," so thanks for the clarification! :)
Those reasons aren't mutually exclusive, especially if you mean cultural heritage, which Sowell does.
Sowell seems to agree with you, which is why he said "considered black English."
Who's to blame for black behavior? Why those nasty white southerners, of course. Utter nonsense, bigoted scapegoating of people on the officially approved target list.
Hm? Where in the world did you get that?
Catskills? Or Appalachia?
placemark
There was a movie about the roots of Appalachian gospel and folk music from England/Scotland/Wales
Songcatcher
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210299/
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