Ayers on regional Southern Identity

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/ayers3.html



posted by Lloyd at 9:28 AM

Writer's Notes for the Introduction

The anecdote hook:
Twain, Lincoln, Robinson, other travel accounts. Migration of Northerners to the South; trans-regional couples.
The state seal as state identity
What did people use "Indiana" and "Mississippi" to symbolize?

Nature versus Nurture; -- dynamic process and debate at the time.

Turnerism versus trans-national frontiers
This was an age of national identity formation
Mass politics as crux loyalty [this seemed brilliant when I wrote it; I can't figure the full meaning right now.]

posted by Lloyd at 7:08 AM