Comments on: The making of ‘The Mind of the South’ http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2010/10/21/the-making-of-the-mind-of-the-south/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-making-of-the-mind-of-the-south Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State Tue, 21 May 2013 18:24:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: BAW http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2010/10/21/the-making-of-the-mind-of-the-south/comment-page-1/#comment-69708 BAW Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:04:14 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=11158#comment-69708 “Other articles in the Mercury would follow, including an indignant portrayal of Charlotte as a citadel of bigotry and Babbitry, besotted by Presbyterianism and in love with Duke Power Co., a city where life for many consisted of ‘a dreary ritual of the office, golf and the church’ that is ‘unbearably dull even for Presbyterians.’”

It looks like things haven’t changed much!

]]> By: George http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2010/10/21/the-making-of-the-mind-of-the-south/comment-page-1/#comment-69388 George Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:42:20 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=11158#comment-69388 Not surprising that this anti-southern southerner would be held up as a genius by the “elite” in this state. He was after all a psychotic who hung himself in a Mexican hotel room because he thought Nazi spies were after him.

]]> By: Murray Harbin http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2010/10/21/the-making-of-the-mind-of-the-south/comment-page-1/#comment-69363 Murray Harbin Sun, 24 Oct 2010 23:00:15 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=11158#comment-69363 Cash was apparently little more than a weak imitator of the Baltimore Butthead (Mencken) himself. But his ruminations give people like Williams and his Observer colleagues material to insult anyone not in lockstep with their liberal, pseudo-elitist leanings.

]]> By: John Blythe http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/index.php/2010/10/21/the-making-of-the-mind-of-the-south/comment-page-1/#comment-68142 John Blythe Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:49:36 +0000 http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/ncm/?p=11158#comment-68142 You’ll find a cache of Cash at this site: http://wjcash.org/
There are scans of all of his pieces for the American Mercury, many of his Charlotte News columns and even audio files of a speech he gave at the University of Texas commencement in 1941 (just a few weeks before his death).

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