Letters to the Editor
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phillips
Huey Long was nothing but speeches, usually drunken ones (but very effective nonethless). You have my sympathy, and some envy to go along with it, for your 300 year dixie history. Y'all must have been slave owners. Thanks for the condescending tone, though. An erudite cracker is still a cracker. Attach all the adjectives you care to, in the fine tradition of Thomas Wolfe (after whom I was named), Eudora Welty, the entire staff of the Sewanee Review, or whatever. If you preface the whole thing with "white" that's all I need to know. For southern culture, especially black music, but also the deepest literary tradition in this country (but it wouldn't be a country if you folks had your way), I have a great deal of respect. For anyone who has the least misty-eyed, Scarlett O'Hara view of "the cause", I invite a French Quarter kiss of my Yankee ass. I ran a bar in the Ozarks for a year. I know what you "white conservative populists" really think once you've had a couple Black Jacks. It ain't pretty. Applaud yourself all you like, but, when you peel back the layers, you've got a racist. I raise my middle finger in honor of Dixie, the song and the concept.