"The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and why it will rise again)
Jan 13, 2007
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and why it will rise again)
Author: Clint Johnson
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Publication Date: 2006
The introduction of this book really hit home with me. This is the sentence that hooked me good:
"The South is all about memory, heritage, and pride of place," writes Clint Johnson. "I refuse to go along with the expunging of that memory, heritage, and pride, and I hope the readers of this book, Northern and Southern, will rise up and join me in protesting those who are trying to do it."
This clicked hard with me, along with his thoughts on how the country is becoming homogenized. Go to San Francisco, New York, or Atlanta and the stores will be the same, there will be a marked lack of accents, and on any one busy street you might be able to forget where you are.
What Clint Johnson wants to promote is the remembranceence of heritage. He does not mean remembering parts that we should not be so proud of and celebrating them, but the parts we should be proud of.. our civility, love and caring of others, accomplishments, inventions, and other moments filled with pride.
This book is filled with factoids of the South. Some just straight reality, but many that have been unknown to the general populace that would continue to set the South in a good light were it more well known.
Clint strives to remove from the rest of the nation the image of us as redneck, lazy, loosely moraled underachievers that try to find other races to pick on while we subsist on government aid.
It's a very interesting book that I suggest you try for yourself.
**Please check out the main Dew site for a question and answer interview with Clint. You may click HERE to go to the post.**
