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[–] Helmsley 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Say what you will about their snobbery but those hifalutin bullshitters produced some of America's best literature. I live in the South and the rambunctious hillbilly shit, though endearing in its own way, gets so unbelievably tiring.
[–] Joe_McCarthy ago (edited ago)
If by literature we're referring to enduring fiction classics I'm struggling to think of any. Literature classics in the US only really started about forty years before the antebellum South was destroyed. That was the product of Northerners like Irving and Fenimore Cooper.
Southern gentlemen did indeed write literature and paint stuff - but not much that anyone other than enthusiasts are likely to be familiar with today.
[–] Helmsley ago
That's pretty disingenuous Joe - Margaret Mitchell, Faulkner, Poe, Flannery O'Connor... ALL upper class Southerners, antebellum or not. Disagreeing with the politics is one thing, but trying to forget and/or minimize their contributions to the fabric of American culture because of old regional hatreds is absurd and unhinged, especially in a time when that hatred is institutionally unidirectional and fundamentalist.