Newsweek frets over “Southernism” triumphant
Michael Hirsh wants you to understand that “the South — or what has become the South-Southwest” is the vessel of “a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores” traceable to Scotch-Irish migration patterns and Andrew Jackson. “The coarsened sensibility that this now-dominant Southernism and frontierism has brought to our national dialogue is unmistakable.” And Hirsh doesn’t care for it — the “intolerant nation” he says we’ve become — not one bit. The essay is subtitled “Southernism is taking over our national dialogue. Maybe it’s time for the North to secede from the Union.”
Yawn.
Such media fear and loathing of the South in Presidential election politics is at least as old as its reaction to Nixon’s “Southern strategy.” Give it a rest, guys.
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