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Jane Smiley's Divell Theorie

Jane Smiley's Divell Theorie ARTICLE Jane Smiley's Divell Theorie_ Rodger Cunningham website set up to encourage public input) by Jane Smiley--a novelist endless trashing of Appalachian people is a blog (a comment on a One of the latest and ugliest examples of the mainstream media's whose books I used to enjoy--on the Huffington Post for December 29, 2006. Smiley wants us all to read her "most informative book of 2006," one that, gee, explains America for her. And this revelatory masterpiece is David Hackett Fischer's 1989 Albion's Seed. In that book, Fischer posited Anglo-American culture as consisting of four regional cultures descended from four regional British cultures: the Puritans from East Anglia to New England and thence the Northern Tier; the Cavaliers from the West Country to Virginia and thence the Deep South; the Quakers from the North Midlands to Pennsylvania and thence the Midwest; and the Scots-Irish from North Britain and Ulster to Appalachia and thence the Upper South. And, says Smiley, aha! This is the explanation for what she'd previously called "the unteachable ignorance of the red states." The mess we're in now is all because those nassty, mean, eeevil Scots-Irish have taken over the Republican Party and are using http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Jane Smiley's Divell Theorie

Appalachian Review , Volume 35 (2) – Jan 8, 2007

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ARTICLE Jane Smiley's Divell Theorie_ Rodger Cunningham website set up to encourage public input) by Jane Smiley--a novelist endless trashing of Appalachian people is a blog (a comment on a One of the latest and ugliest examples of the mainstream media's whose books I used to enjoy--on the Huffington Post for December 29, 2006. Smiley wants us all to read her "most informative book of 2006," one that, gee, explains America for her. And this revelatory masterpiece is David Hackett Fischer's 1989 Albion's Seed. In that book, Fischer posited Anglo-American culture as consisting of four regional cultures descended from four regional British cultures: the Puritans from East Anglia to New England and thence the Northern Tier; the Cavaliers from the West Country to Virginia and thence the Deep South; the Quakers from the North Midlands to Pennsylvania and thence the Midwest; and the Scots-Irish from North Britain and Ulster to Appalachia and thence the Upper South. And, says Smiley, aha! This is the explanation for what she'd previously called "the unteachable ignorance of the red states." The mess we're in now is all because those nassty, mean, eeevil Scots-Irish have taken over the Republican Party and are using

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Published: Jan 8, 2007

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