I think it works a lot better if we remember he was referring to redneck culture from the late 19th and very early 20th century. That culture seems to have largely dissolved away as time and assimilation pulled it into the mainstream, but had holdouts in the urban ghettos where it managed to metastasize due to the drug war driven narcoti…
I think it works a lot better if we remember he was referring to redneck culture from the late 19th and very early 20th century. That culture seems to have largely dissolved away as time and assimilation pulled it into the mainstream, but had holdouts in the urban ghettos where it managed to metastasize due to the drug war driven narcotics market. That's my take at least, having grown up in a rather rednecky part of the Appalachians where the culture was a bit of a hold out (not the violence fortunately, but all the rest Sowell described). The similarities are pretty striking.
I think it works a lot better if we remember he was referring to redneck culture from the late 19th and very early 20th century. That culture seems to have largely dissolved away as time and assimilation pulled it into the mainstream, but had holdouts in the urban ghettos where it managed to metastasize due to the drug war driven narcotics market. That's my take at least, having grown up in a rather rednecky part of the Appalachians where the culture was a bit of a hold out (not the violence fortunately, but all the rest Sowell described). The similarities are pretty striking.