Re: Nostalgia for old regimes (was: Re: [Marxism] A critique of Genovese

["B. Castleberry" <bcastleberry1hsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou Paulsen wrote:

>This sort of plantation nostalgia is a constantly recurring theme in
>U.S. culture.

And not only in the South.  After the Civil War, wealthy northern
industrialists bought up every one of the ruined plantations here in the
Tallahassee - Thomasville area and turned them into quail-hunting
preserves.  Where did the former owners go, if they still lived?  Texas,
of course.  The "big houses" display photographs of visiting Presidents,
Congressmen and British Royalty.

http://www.pebblehill.com/default.htm

http://www.melhana.com/home.html

A good effort at reconstructing, "The World the Slaves made" is under
way at the Cane River National Historic Park:

http://www.nps.gov/cari/magnolia.htm

It is painful to African-Americans house-hunting in the South that so
many subdivisions are called "(insert rustic name) Plantation".

A word on Virgil Caine.  Men like him often despised and were oppressed
by the Southern gentry, would-be Cavaliers.  Every time I see a moldy
set of the complete works of Sir Walter Scott donated to our library, I
know that a scion of one of these families has died.  Think Sydney
Greenstreet as Sheriff Titus Semple in, "Flamingo Road", or Big Daddy
in, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

I remember The Band playing this song at Carter's victory party in 1976.

BC

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