On Being Southern - perspectives -
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Published on: 4/24/2006
Last Visited: 11/21/2007
Then I read Mind Of The South, by W.J. Cash, published in 1941 while he was a staff writer at the Charlotte Observer.His observations about our region can help better understand its unique character.
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On Being Southern - W.J. Cash and The Mind Of The South, published in 1941
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The Mind Of The South, ** by W. J. Cash, published originally in 1941
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** I've taken plenty of liberties with Mr. Cash's work because it is written in a style many readers may encounter for the first time.
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W.J. Cash (1900-1941) was born in 1900 in Gaffney, South Carolina, a cotton-mill town where his father managed the Limestone Mills company store.He attended Wake Forest College beginning in 1920.Like many young white Southerners, Cash found the writings of H.L. Mencken (3) an attractive antidote to the romanticism and boosterism of the latest New South.
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Cash argued that the region's history was a continuous and internally logical progression straight from slavery to modern industrial capitalism.Old South and New, Cash contended, stood apart from the rest of the nation, warped by mistaken notions of progress and white supremacy and by the demagogues who represented them.