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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
I could've sworn there were poor black people living in northern cities for the past, oh, 200 years. But I guess that was my imagination.
I'm hoping that Gatti will weigh in on this as our resident sort-of-Southerner. But he's probably busy fucking his cousin.
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Sidd, those who emigrated to other parts of America and remain poor undoubtedly have exported the relevant aspects of Southern culture. Sure, they may not speak the same, but clearly the retardation of Northern blacks' economic success is because of the inherent dependency of Southern culture. Get it?
Beyond its other flaws, the problem with this argument is that "Southern culture" is completely malleable. If its contours can be defined as the author wishes, I'm surprised that he stopped with handing it the yoke of economic repression for blacks and undereducated whites, and didn't extend it to the regrettable quality of today's prime-time programming.
Gattigap
