When I got back to Florida, @gabrielwinant sent me this passage from an historian of the American South, and I think about it every other day.pic.twitter.com/9WwAgfCrvf
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Obviously it comes apart on the shoals of social reality. Still, I'm attracted to attempt to imagine a shared identity based on suffering and defeat
I think, just to clarify why thinking about this is a repetition compulsion for me, there is a kernel of truth to this that gets mobilized, more often, toward invidious recrimination and isolation, absent some stronger social-political bulwark to channel it toward emancipation.
It’s the latter that white southerners are often skeptical of precisely because of their sense of tragedy—their tragedy is too narrow and runs afoul of what Woodward says here.
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