W. J. Cash (1900 – 1941)
“Proud, brave, honorable by its lights, courteous, personally generous, loyal … such was the South at its best,” wrote W. J. Cash in his classic 1941 work, “The Mind of the South.”
So far, so good—but Cash goes on to describe some less appealing but still quintessentially Southern traits, among them being “… suspicion toward new ideas, an incapacity for analysis, an inclination to act from feeling rather than from thought, an exaggerated individualism and a too-narrow sense of social responsibility….”
And, of course, “… too great an attachment to racial values…” – or, so as not to mince words, racism.
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