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PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT (scivillage): How inner city Black hipster styles evolved from Southern white redneck culture
THOMAS SOWELL
https://youtu.be/Zs522jdYb3w
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Given the historical background of crackers and rednecks in Britain, it could hardly be expected that intellectual activity would be a major interest of theirs in the United States.
A study of 18,000 county records found that nearly half of all the white male Virginians were so illiterate that they could not sign their names, and simply made a mark on legal documents.
While the small Virginia aristocracy were often well-educated and had impressive collections of books in their homes, these books were typically imported from England rather than purchased from local bookstores. Thomas Jefferson complained that the area where he lived was without a single bookstore.
As late as the census of 1850, more than one-fifth of Southern whites were still illiterate compared to less than one percent of New Englanders. In the Southern back country, levels of schooling were lower here than any other part of the United States.
The total circulation of Northern newspapers was more than four times the total circulation of Southern newspapers. Moreover, many editors of Southern newspapers were themselves from the North. The North had four times as many schools, attended by more than four times as many pupils.
[...] When it came to inventions, only eight percent of the patents issued in 1852 went to residents of the southern states. [...] Even in agriculture, the main economic activity of the region, [...] the cotton gin --perhaps the most crucial invention for the Antebellum South -- was invented by a Northerner... (RELATED LINKS: The origin of the redneck culture from Britain .... How the Scotch-Irish community (rednecks) transformed the American South)
How white Southern redneck culture lagged behind Northerners in education
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Zs522jdYb3w
THOMAS SOWELL
https://youtu.be/Zs522jdYb3w
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Given the historical background of crackers and rednecks in Britain, it could hardly be expected that intellectual activity would be a major interest of theirs in the United States.
A study of 18,000 county records found that nearly half of all the white male Virginians were so illiterate that they could not sign their names, and simply made a mark on legal documents.
While the small Virginia aristocracy were often well-educated and had impressive collections of books in their homes, these books were typically imported from England rather than purchased from local bookstores. Thomas Jefferson complained that the area where he lived was without a single bookstore.
As late as the census of 1850, more than one-fifth of Southern whites were still illiterate compared to less than one percent of New Englanders. In the Southern back country, levels of schooling were lower here than any other part of the United States.
The total circulation of Northern newspapers was more than four times the total circulation of Southern newspapers. Moreover, many editors of Southern newspapers were themselves from the North. The North had four times as many schools, attended by more than four times as many pupils.
[...] When it came to inventions, only eight percent of the patents issued in 1852 went to residents of the southern states. [...] Even in agriculture, the main economic activity of the region, [...] the cotton gin --perhaps the most crucial invention for the Antebellum South -- was invented by a Northerner... (RELATED LINKS: The origin of the redneck culture from Britain .... How the Scotch-Irish community (rednecks) transformed the American South)
How white Southern redneck culture lagged behind Northerners in education