Jack Jenkins
I feel like one of the only ways to gauge whether Mastodon is replacing Twitter is to see how users react to one of the USA's thorniest geographical and sociological questions:
How do you regionally classify Kentucky — is it part of the South, Midwest, Appalachia, etc?
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ah! this gives me a reason to introduce Karl Marx’s hot takes on the Civil War and its most interesting “border”, aka Union Southern State.
Marx’s description of Kentucky’s class war at the ballot box in the 1860s, explains why MLK (in the 1960s) and later Fred Hamptom (in the 1970s), wanted to bring the CRM to the Appalachias thru Kentucky: rigged elections kept the oligarchy in power and the democratic masses out.
and explains their assassinations.
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all this to say, as one of the so-called coastal elites, the textbook answer as to what is the South can be very myopic.
is it south of DC? is it the slaveocracy states? or the Confederacy?
The South is very much a geographic, historical, political and sociological metaphor.
but what i have learned during the current opoid AND COVID19 epidemics, The South is very much at odds and is even the enemy of Appalachia.
and those 1860s Marx essays confirm that.
Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs:
The South is very much at odds and is even the enemy of Appalachia.
One hundred percent. Most people know that West Virginia is a separate state because it seceded from Virginia in order to stay in the Union. But despite growing up in East Tennessee, I didn't learn until very recently that East Tennessee tried to secede from Tennessee in the same way, and was only stopped by Nashville sending troops to occupy Knoxville. Why wasn't I taught this?
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