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Article: Globalization, southern style: ways of Dixie Win in Latin America from New York Times, August 8, 1926.(Not Forgotten)
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- Southern Cultures
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- June 22, 2004
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES C. COBB
With all due respect to Helen Bullitt Lowry, suggestions that the South is what some have called "America's Latin America" are older than the republic itself. In 176 5 London philanthropist Dr. John Fothergill drew sharp distinctions between the thrifty and industrious residents of the northern colonies, who lived "like our lower English farmers," and the southern colonists, with their inclinations toward "Idleness and Extravagance," who had more in common with the "West Indians" than with their neighbors to the north. (1)
This representation of the South was still much in evidence in 1810, when a touring French ...