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The Will Smith Slap and Sowell's "Black Rednecks and White Liberals"

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The History of Southern Whites and the Legacy of Slavery

Sowell: Southerners whites not only spoke the English language in very different ways from whites in other regions. The cultural values and social patterns prevalent among southern whites included an aversion to work, a proneness to violence," he says. Touchy pride, vanity, and boastful self dramatization were also part of this redneck cultureamong people from regions of Britain where the civilization was the least developed.

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