Re: A POST on Post, and vice versa

["dmschanoes" <dmschanoes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LP,

No need to be churlish, Louis, I was, as you so often urge us all to do,
thinking out loud.  Charles Post writes an article about the ANTEBELLUM
plantation system in the South.

I think we have to allow the artist his medium so to speak, and analyze the
article he presents for its validity or lack thereof based on the
specificity of the topic, i.e antebellum, not post-bellum Southern property
relations.

You now state that I'm trying to sweep the collapse of Reconstruction, the
KKK, and Jim Crow under the rug, or is that under the carpetbagger?  What's
next, accusations that I'm racist?

If I was the type to take offense at  non-sequitor, ignorant, ad hominem
arguements, I would take offense.

But I'm not that sort of person. I am more than willing to discuss the rise
of Jim Crow, the collapse of  Reconstruction on the basis of the very
property relations that define the Southern economy in the development of
the US, and the property relations that manifest themselves throughout the
development of the US as a whole,  just as Post's article discusses the
actual elements of the ANTEBELLUM Southern economy in terms of those
property relations.

dms