Oct 7, 2023 04:07 PM
PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT (scivillage): How the Scotch-Irish community (rednecks) transformed the American South
THOMAS SOWELL
https://youtu.be/jvUwnLXxais
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Comments on the lack of enterprise by Southern whites were made by numerous observers in various parts of the South.
[...] South Carolina's famed Senator John C Calhoun said not even the poorest or the lowest will under any circumstances perform menial labor. He has too much pride for that
[...] Very similar kinds of comments were made about these Southerners' ancestors in the parts of the British Isles from which they came. Although the term lazy appears frequently in comments on these people on both sides of the Atlantic, there has been no evidence of any such aversion on their part to strenuous physical activity in dancing, fighting, hunting, and other recreational activities.
So sloth was not the real issue nor have rednecks or crackers been prominent in such less physically demanding activities as entrepreneurship or scholarship. [Crab bucket culture]
It is the nature of the particular activities, in which they have taken an active interest in, on which they have expended their energies. Rather than the physical demands of those activities. That seems to have been crucial.
Not only did many of the groups who settled in the South disdain business as a career as their ancestors had in those parts of Britain from which they came, they typically lack the kinds of habits necessary to be successful in business.
[...] Even when there was business to transact, Southerners would often stop to go watch a cockfight, or a parade, or visit a saloon, or go hunting. Traveling in the South, a northern visitor commented in the 1850s: "You
become astonished at the little attention men pay to their business."
[...] Many Southern businessmen were unreliable about either paying their bills, or delivering goods and services when promised...
Redneck work habits explained: Why were Southern whites so bad at business?
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jvUwnLXxais
THOMAS SOWELL
https://youtu.be/jvUwnLXxais
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Comments on the lack of enterprise by Southern whites were made by numerous observers in various parts of the South.
[...] South Carolina's famed Senator John C Calhoun said not even the poorest or the lowest will under any circumstances perform menial labor. He has too much pride for that
[...] Very similar kinds of comments were made about these Southerners' ancestors in the parts of the British Isles from which they came. Although the term lazy appears frequently in comments on these people on both sides of the Atlantic, there has been no evidence of any such aversion on their part to strenuous physical activity in dancing, fighting, hunting, and other recreational activities.
So sloth was not the real issue nor have rednecks or crackers been prominent in such less physically demanding activities as entrepreneurship or scholarship. [Crab bucket culture]
It is the nature of the particular activities, in which they have taken an active interest in, on which they have expended their energies. Rather than the physical demands of those activities. That seems to have been crucial.
Not only did many of the groups who settled in the South disdain business as a career as their ancestors had in those parts of Britain from which they came, they typically lack the kinds of habits necessary to be successful in business.
[...] Even when there was business to transact, Southerners would often stop to go watch a cockfight, or a parade, or visit a saloon, or go hunting. Traveling in the South, a northern visitor commented in the 1850s: "You
become astonished at the little attention men pay to their business."
[...] Many Southern businessmen were unreliable about either paying their bills, or delivering goods and services when promised...
Redneck work habits explained: Why were Southern whites so bad at business?