Actually, all he's doing is revealing the compassing and willful ignorance lots of non-Southerners have about the South. I pretty much chalk it up to them needing a bugaboo to make themselves feel better about their own attitudes and let them shrivel away, stuck in a time that, ironically, most of the South is in the process of moving beyond.
(I'm finishing up two stories right now that deal with race relations in the South, and both are rather brutal in their examination of both white and black psyches...I've long since given up trying to please the people who'd prefer vulgar politics to honest art. And, yeah, that does sound pretentious. But I don't mean it to be.)
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Date: 2005-05-22 04:32 am (UTC)(I'm finishing up two stories right now that deal with race relations in the South, and both are rather brutal in their examination of both white and black psyches...I've long since given up trying to please the people who'd prefer vulgar politics to honest art. And, yeah, that does sound pretentious. But I don't mean it to be.)