In the midst of our current heat wave, two stories that don't appear to be related, but are:
Cities that Wouldn't Exist Without Air Conditioning (from the Atlantic)
and
Conservative Southern Values Revived: How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Rule America (from Alternet).
Monday, July 2, 2012
If You Can't Stand the Heat, Move South (with Air Conditioning)
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Wow, the Conservative Southern Values article is an eye-opener!
It made me think about Steven Pinker's analysis of the South, as a place dominated by people who had emigrated from sheep-herding cultures. And that herding cultures tend to be territorial and retribution-oriented.
A bit different from this analysis. I had never heard before that most/many Southern plantation owners had come from the Caribbean. It appears her source for that was Colin Woodard's American Nations: The Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. Probably worth checking that out.
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