This essay was originally published in Louis D. Rubin, Jr., The American South: Portrait of a Culture, 1979, 27-37.
In 1928, an unusually far-sighted southerner named Broadus Mitchell pondered the implications of the South’s impending modernization, wondering “whether these great industrial developments [to come] will banish the personality of the South … or whether the old spirit will actuate the new performance.”
“Will industrialism produce the same effects here as elsewhere,” he mused, “or will it submit to be modified by a persistent Southern temperament?” A half century later, the South has certainly seen its share of industrialization, urbanization, and all the other -actions that sociologists call development and most of us would optimistically call progress, but the answers to Mitchell’s questions are still not clear.
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Nope, I you are a Southerner you will spend the 20 minutes it takes to cook grits. It's the damn yankees who invaded the south that embrace instant grits and other uncivilized things like putting sugar on grits.
ReplyDeleteI remember a story concerning a Yankee politician running in the South and to blend in he went to a restaurant and ordered a grit! :)
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