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Our Kind of Yankee: September 11 Reminded Southerners of What We Admire about New York

Our Kind of Yankee: September 11 Reminded Southerners of What We Admire about New York SC 9.1-Reed 2/6/03 11:04 AM Page 9   ...................... Our Kind of Yankee September 11 Reminded Southerners of What We Admire about New York by John Shelton Reed These are the kind of New Yorkers we saw on television after September 11: firemen, policemen, rescue workers—ordinary folks. They’re our kind of Yankee. Photograph by Tom Sperduto, courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard. 9 SC 9.1-Reed 2/6/03 11:04 AM Page 10 n the days after September 11, when Americans were watching a lot of television, many of us heard a Texas man-in-the-street tell a network interviewer something like, “Being a Texan or New Yorker just isn’t very important right now. We’re all Amer- I icans.” Soon after that, we heard about some South Carolina middle-school students who raised the money to buy a truck for some Brooklyn firemen who lost theirs (along with seven comrades) at the World Trade Center. What’s going on here? Texans and South Carolinians playing kissy-face with New York City? Isn’t New York the heart of Yankeedom? Isn’t it the city south- erners love to hate? Well, like other Americans in that great red Republican inte- rior on the 2000 Presidential election map, many southerners http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Our Kind of Yankee: September 11 Reminded Southerners of What We Admire about New York

Reed, John Shelton.
Southern Cultures , Volume 9 (1) – Mar 31, 2003
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SC 9.1-Reed 2/6/03 11:04 AM Page 9   ...................... Our Kind of Yankee September 11 Reminded Southerners of What We Admire about New York by John Shelton Reed These are the kind of New Yorkers we saw on television after September 11: firemen, policemen, rescue workers—ordinary folks. They’re our kind of Yankee. Photograph by Tom Sperduto, courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard. 9 SC 9.1-Reed 2/6/03 11:04 AM Page 10 n the days after September 11, when Americans were watching a lot of television, many of us heard a Texas man-in-the-street tell a network interviewer something like, “Being a Texan or New Yorker just isn’t very important right now. We’re all Amer- I icans.” Soon after that, we heard about some South Carolina middle-school students who raised the money to buy a truck for some Brooklyn firemen who lost theirs (along with seven comrades) at the World Trade Center. What’s going on here? Texans and South Carolinians playing kissy-face with New York City? Isn’t New York the heart of Yankeedom? Isn’t it the city south- erners love to hate? Well, like other Americans in that great red Republican inte- rior on the 2000 Presidential election map, many southerners

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