Oh no, are we gonna talk about "Crackers"? hue hue hue
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Thomas Sowell:
It is perhaps understandable that the great, overwhelming moral curse of slavery has presented a tempting causal explanation of the peculiar subculture of Southern whites, as well as that of blacks.Yet this same subculture had existed among Southern whites and their ancestors in those parts of the British Isles from which they came, long before they had ever seen a black slave.The nature of this subculture, among people who were called “rednecks” and “crackers” in Britain before they ever saw America, needs to be explored before turning to the question of its current status among ghetto blacks and how developments in the larger society have affected its evolution.
Redneck Culture
Emigration from Britain, like other migrations around the world, was not random in either its origins or its destinations. Most of the Britons who migrated to colonial Massachusetts, for example, came from within a 60-mile radius of the town of Haverhill in East Anglia. The Virginia aristocracy came from different localities in southern and western England. Most of the common white people of the South came from the northern borderlands of England—for centuries a no-man’s land between Scotland and England—as well as from the Scottish highlands and from Ulster County, Ireland. All these fringe areas were turbulent, if not lawless, regions, where none of the contending forces was able to establish full control and create a stable order. Whether called a “Celtic fringe” or “north Britons,” these were people from outside the cultural heartland of England, as their behavior on both sides of the Atlantic showed. Before the era of modern transportation and communication, sharp regional differences were both common and persistent.
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What the rednecks or crackers brought with them across the ocean was a whole constellation of attitudes, values, and behavior patterns that might have made sense in the world in which they had lived for centuries, but which would prove to be counterproductive in the world to which they were going—and counterproductive to the blacks who would live in their midst for centuries before emerging into freedom and migrating to the great urban centers of the United States, taking with them similar values.
The cultural values and social patterns prevalent among Southern whites included an aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship, reckless searches for excitement, lively music and dance, and a style of religious oratory marked by strident rhetoric, unbridled emotions, and flamboyant imagery. This oratorical style carried over into the political oratory of the region in both the Jim Crow era and the civil rights era, and has continued on into our own times among black politicians, preachers, and activists.Touchy pride, vanity, and boastful self-dramatization were also part of this redneck culture among people from regions of Britain “where the civilization was the least developed.” “They boast and lack self-restraint,” Olmsted said, after observing their descendants in the American antebellum South.
While Professor Grady McWhiney’s Cracker Culture is perhaps the most thorough historical study of the values and behavioral patterns of white Southerners, many other scholarly studies have turned up very similar patterns, even when they differed in some ways as to the causes. Professor David Hackett Fischer’s Albion’s Seed, for example, challenges the Celtic connection thesis put forth by Professor McWhiney, but shows many of the same cultural patterns among the same people, both in Britain and in the American South. Popular writings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have likewise described similar behavior, including the Indianapolis resident’s comments on white Southern migrants to that city, which sound so much like what many have said about ghetto blacks.
Oh no...
Centuries before “black pride” became a fashionable phrase, there was cracker pride—and it was very much the same kind of pride. It was not pride in any particular achievement or set of behavioral standards or moral principles adhered to. It was instead a touchiness about anything that might be even remotely construed as a personal slight, much less an insult, combined with a willingness to erupt into violence over it. New Englanders were baffled about this kind of pride among crackers. Observing such people, the Yankees “could not understand what they had to feel proud about.” However, this kind of pride is perhaps best illustrated by an episode reported in Professor McWhiney’s Cracker Culture:
When an Englishman, tired of waiting for a Southerner to start working on a house he had contracted to build, hired another man to do the job, the enraged Southerner, who considered himself dishonored, vowed:“to-morrow morn, I will come with men, and twenty rifles, and I will have your life, or you shall have mine.”
In the vernacular of our later times, he had been “dissed”—and he was not going to stand for it, regardless of the consequences for himself or others.The history of the antebellum South is full of episodes showing the same pattern, whether expressed in the highly formalized duels of the aristocracy or in the no-holds-barred style of fighting called “rough and tumble” among the common folk, a style that included biting off ears and gouging out eyes. It was not simply that particular isolated individuals did such things; social approval was given to these practices ...
Oh no...
Pride had yet another side to it. Among the definitions of a “cracker” in the Oxford dictionary is a “braggart”—one who “talks trash” in today’s vernacular—a wisecracker. More than mere wisecracks were involved, however. The pattern is one said by Professor McWhiney to go back to descriptions of ancient Celts as “boasters and threateners, and given to bombastic self-dramatisation.” Examples today come readily to mind, not only from ghetto life and gangsta rap, but also from militant black “leaders,” spokesmen or activists.What is painfully ironic is that such attitudes and behavior are projected today as aspects of a distinctive “black identity,” when in fact they are part of a centuries-old pattern among the whites in whose midst generations of blacks lived in the South.
OH NO...
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 from seventeenth-century colonial Virginia showed 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.
OH NO
Much of the cultural pattern of Southern rednecks became the cultural heritage of Southern blacks, more so than survivals of African cultures, with which they had not been in contact for centuries. (Even in colonial times, most blacks on American soil had been born on American soil.) Moreover, such cultural traits followed blacks out of the Southern countrysides and into the urban ghettos—North and South—where many settled.The very way of talking, later to be christened “black English,” closely followed dialects brought over from those parts of Britain from which many white Southerners came, though these speech patterns died out in Britain while surviving in the American South,143 as such speech patterns would later die out among most Southern whites and among middle-class blacks, while surviving in the poorer black ghettos around the country.
NO NO NO
Complaints about the improvidence of whites in the South, and of their ancestors in Britain before that, were echoed in W. E. B. Du Bois’ picture of his fellow blacks in the 1890s:
Probably few poor nations waste more money by thoughtless and unreasonable expenditure than the American Negro, and especially those living in large cities.Thousands of dollars are annually wasted…in amusements of various kinds, and in miscellaneous ornaments and gewgaws….The Negro has much to learn of the Jew and the Italian, as to living within his means and saving every penny from excessive and wasteful expenditures.
OH GOD NOT BASED W.E.B. DU BOIS
It was not, however, from Jews or Italians that blacks had absorbed their culture. Du Bois’ description of the spending habits of blacks in the 1890s was echoed by a contemporary observer, Jacob Riis, who said that the Negro “loves fine clothes and good living a good deal more than he does a bank account.” Similar observations have been made by many others over the years, inside and outside the black community.
DON'T BRING UP THE JEWS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The neglect and disdain of education found among antebellum white Southerners has been echoed not only in low performance levels among ghetto blacks but perhaps most dramatically in a hostility toward those black students who are conscientious about their studies, who are accused of “acting white”—a charge that can bring anything from social ostracism to outright violence. So much attention has been paid to questions of ability that few have looked at cultural attitudes. One of those who has is black professor and best-selling author Shelby Steele, who “sees in many of these children almost a determination not to learn,” even though, once outside the school and in their own neighborhoods,“these same children learn everything.” He drew on his own experiences teaching at a university:
For some years I have noticed that I can walk into any of my classes on the first day of the semester, identify the black students, and be sadly confident that on the last day of the semester a disproportionate number of them will be at the bottom of the class, far behind any number of white students of equal or even lesser ability.
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White liberals, instead of comparing what has happened to the black family since the liberal welfare state policies of the 1960s were put into practice, compare black families to white families and conclude that the higher rates of broken homes and unwed motherhood among blacks are due to “a legacy of slavery.” But why the large-scale disintegration of the black family should have begun a hundred years after slavery is left unexplained.Whatever the situation of the black family relative to the white family, in the past or the present,189 it is clear that broken homes were far more common among blacks at the end of the twentieth century than they were in the middle of that century or at the beginning of that century—even though blacks at the beginning of the twentieth century were just one generation out of slavery. The widespread and casual abandonment of their children, and of the women who bore them, by black fathers in the ghettos of the late twentieth century was in fact a painfully ironic contrast with what had happened in the immediate aftermath of slavery a hundred years earlier, when observers in the South reported desperate efforts of freed blacks to find family members who had been separated from them during the era of slavery. A contemporary journalist reported meeting black men walking along the roads of Virginia and North Carolina, many of whom had walked across the state—or across more than one state—looking for their families.191 Others reported similar strenuous and even desperate efforts of newly freed blacks to find members of their families.
No, but really, if these people want to know about crackers, they should look in a mirror.
"The cultural values and social patterns prevalent among Southern whites included an aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship, reckless searches for excitement, lively music and dance, and a style of religious oratory marked by strident rhetoric, unbridled emotions, and flamboyant imagery.
to this:
"The cultural values and social patterns prevalent among New York Jews included an aversion to work, proneness to prevarication, neglect of hygiene, sexual promiscuity, nepotism, avarice, lack of ethics, relentless undermining of the surrounding culture, perversion of others' arts, and a style of oratory marked by claims of victimhood, unbridled greed, and narcissism.
Hmm, it seems that Mr. Sowell is just a black supremacist with better PR. And of course W.E.B Du Bois is probably one of the most evil men to live in America.
You wouldn't post a white supremacist's rants about blacks or jew. Stop posting black supremacist's versions of the same.
You wouldn't post a white supremacist's rants about blacks or jew. Stop posting black supremacist's versions of the same.
I don't think you've ever read anything by Thomas Sowell outside of that paragraph. I don't think you've even read the rest of my comment.
You're actually missing the entire point about what he's saying. That culture was specific to Ulster-Scotts. That archaic Ulster-Scott culture has been mostly abandoned by whites in the modern era. The last paragraph in my comment specifically points out that Black racial identitarians maintained and promoted that adopted archaic Ulster-Scott culture in black ghettos. That culture was explicitly abandoned by the Ulster-Scotts themselves during Scotland's sudden development.
Here. Sowell noting quite early that Ulster-Scotts people, and Scotts generally transformed dramatically through the 1700's & 1800's compared to when the Ulster-Scotts arrived in America:
Back in the British Isles, the life of the Scottish people was transformed dramatically, from the masses to the elites, as they advanced from being one of the least educated to one of the most educated peoples in Europe. However, what is significant here is that much of the migration to the American South occurred before these sweeping social transformations. This timing was crucial, as Professor Grady McWhiney has pointed out in his book Cracker Culture:
…had the South been peopled by nineteenth-century Scots, Welshmen, and Ulstermen, the course of Southern history would doubtless have been radically different. Nineteenth-century Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigrants did in fact fit quite comfortably into northern American society. (Significantly the Irish, who retained their Celtic ways, did not.) But only a trickle of the flood of nineteenth-century immigrants came into the South; the ancestors of the vast majority of Southerners arrived in America before the Anglicization of Scotland, Wales, and Ulster had advanced very far.
And, he also goes on that White New Englanders were a major force for intentionally destablaizing and removing that archaic Ulster-Scott culture by promoting, what is effectively, the Protestant English Work Ethic:
To put this in perspective, only 17 percent of the Northern population lived in New England at the time, so this was a wholly disproportionate representation of New Englanders among those who began to educate newly emancipated blacks.This was a New England-led crusade, much like the pre-war abolitionist movement, and many of those who went into the post-bellum South were former abolitionists.
These teachers brought a wholly different culture into the South. In the words of distinguished black scholar E. Franklin Frazier: “The missionaries from New England who founded the first schools for Negroes in the South left the imprint of their Puritan background upon Negro education.”196 In addition to strict morality, these missionaries “taught the Yankee virtues of industry and thrift.”197 This cultural transformation was not incidental. The avowed purpose of the American Missionary Association was to transplant a different culture into the school and college enclaves which they established among young blacks in the South, in order to deliberately supplant the existing culture.These were deeply religious institutions, but in the New England sense, so that black students “were not to indulge in the religious emotionalism of the black masses” in the South.
I don't know how you can say a Black Supremacist is identifying that Blacks adopted a dominant white culture, but were also influenced away from that dominant culture by a, frankly, superior white culture that uplifted them as well... and that other whites benefited from promoting a worse culture since it maintained dependency on Leftist policies. That's not any Black Supremacist argument I've ever heard of.
Then you go on to say this:
You wouldn't post a white supremacist's rants about blacks or jews. Stop posting black supremacist's versions of the same.
So... about the Jews:
In many places and times, younger people have been brought in at the bottom, often in Third World countries, opening their own tiny businesses in remote hinterlands where few others have set up shop, whether in Africa or in Southeast Asia. Not everyone has either the temperament or the patience for this kind of life.
Various kinds of people are precluded from the outset. Brawling drunkards or live-for-the-moment individuals seldom even consider becoming middlemen, much less have any realistic chance of succeeding in such businesses. Given the long years that can pass between initial poverty and eventual prosperity, people with short time horizons are automatically precluded from this field.The utter dominance of particular minorities as middlemen amid vastly larger populations suggests that there are few members of the surrounding society who have all of the characteristics needed.Where differences between the whole lifestyle of the middleman minority and that of the majority population around them are so great, this means economic complementarity that benefits both—and social differences which alienate others and which can be exploited by demagogues to generate hostility and backlashes. The history of middleman minorities has been full of both.
Longer time horizons for middleman minorities influence their education and the kinds of careers their later generations pursue, as distinguished especially from the educational experiences of groups with shorter time horizons. Many years must elapse before any kind of education reaches a level where it pays off and this is of course particularly true where postgraduate education is a prerequisite for a professional career. People can become rock stars or professional athletes in a relatively few years, but it takes far longer to become a surgeon or scientist.There are correspondingly sharp differences in which groups become prominent or predominant in these different kinds of occupations. It is not only particular ethnic minorities, such as blacks or the Irish, who have at particular times dominated sports and entertainment in the United States, but also white Southerners.97 All these groups have succeeded out of all proportion to their numbers in the general population, while all have been conspicuously rare among surgeons and scientists, where the descendants of middleman minorities have been over-represented.
And as for Blacks...
One of the most obvious reasons for the deficient educational performances of blacks is also one of the most overlooked or suppressed: By and large, black students do not work as hard as white students, much less Asian students.The Shaker Heights study is just one that has found this to be so, though many have been reluctant even to investigate this factor that will be very unsurprising to anyone who has taught black students, white students, and Asian students. The remarkable exceptions in schools where substandard work has not been tolerated only reinforce this point. If the fundamental problem were income, segregation, or even innate inferiority, there would be no such dramatic contrasts among black schools. Although each of these explanations has been common at various times and places, none of them stands up to empirical scrutiny.
If successful education of blacks were just a matter of isolated individuals—of “cream rising to the top”—then it would be hard to explain such concentrations of educational success at such schools as Dunbar and its counterparts today. Such success has been disproportionately concentrated not only in particular schools but also in particular families. Of 4.3 million black families in the United States in 1966, a mere 5.2 thousand produced all the black physicians, dentists, lawyers, and academic doctorates in the country. As rare as people at this level were among blacks, the average black family that included someone in one of these categories averaged 2.2 such individuals. While family concentrations alone might suggest heredity, similar institutional concentrations suggest that it is the culture which promotes or impedes educational achievement.
In a sense, it is misleading to single out blacks for not sharing cultural values that are in fact by no means universal among other groups in the United States or in other countries around the world. Certainly the dedicated work of Chinese American or Japanese American students is not the norm among most ethnic groups or in most countries. In white, lower-class communities in Britain, the same counterproductive attitudes toward education found among blacks in the United States are just as prevalent and just as self-defeating.
"By and large, black students do not work as hard as white students" ... that's uh... not exactly a black supremacist statement, now is it?
You are the one that missed the point. Sowell's (and your) entire argument, essentially that whites set a bad example for blacks and thus it isn't blacks fault, rests on false, racially (and formerly nationally) motivated blood libel, which since it is directed at the right target, you are more than happy to repeat. No bad tactics, right?
So lets go through point by point and show just how fucking wrong he is.
"The cultural values and social patterns prevalent among Southern whites included an aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship, reckless searches for excitement, lively music and dance, and a style of religious oratory marked by strident rhetoric, unbridled emotions, and flamboyant imagery."
The idea that Scotland only modernized during the 1700 and 1800's is falsified by the existence of John Napier and Colin MacLaurin among others. Scotland was every bit a leading scientific center even before the industrial revolution. And let's not forget the contributions of William Rowan Hamilton, James Watt, or Lord Kelvin during and after the Industrial Revolution.
The defamation of the Celts comes straight from the English academics who were creating propaganda against their hereditary enemies (when they weren't fighting their other hereditary enemies, the Germans or the French). Since the English won all the various wars against Scotland and Ireland and ruled them with an iron fist that would make China blush, their propaganda survived.
Sowell himself got this idea from Grady McWhiney, who created the Celtic Thesis out of whole cloth. Simply put the Celtic Thesis cannot be correct because more Ulster-Scots immigrated to the north, prior to the civil war than to the south. Specifically the potato famine occurred in the 1840's and 1850's, which makes Sowell's aside, "(Significantly the Irish, who retained their Celtic ways, did not.)", irrelevant as it would be some 60 years (3-4 generations) before the "Great Migration", and the subsequent opportunity for blacks to mix with and ape the Ulster-Scots. Thus the attribution that blacks learned this from Whites is also false on its on merits.
Finally lets look at where Sowell is coming from... Harvard and Columbia University... and then he taught on the Left coast for the rest of his career. He is just another leftist looking to blame whitey. He just hides it way better than most.
Sowell's (and your) entire argument, essentially that whites set a bad example for blacks and thus it isn't blacks fault,
No it doesn't. His point is that culture, and especially family and community ties, is a major aspect that determines economic success. You seem to have selectively parts of what he said, assumed the absolute worst possible interpretation, ignored anything that contradicts you, and burried you head in the sand screaming about Leftists and Black supremacy.
My god, you ignored the point that New England whites explicitly set a good example which lead to blacks achieving a 50% literacy rate from 0% literacy rate within 3 generations which is effectively unheard of.
You also ignored that his complaints about blacks... were coming from black people!
thus it isn't blacks fault, rests on false, racially (and formerly nationally) motivated blood libel
What the absolute fuck are you talking about? He never said anything even kind of like that.
The thing he genuine condemns more than anything else is the welfare state for supporting, endorsing, an incentivizing the destruction of the family unit.
Scotland was every bit a leading scientific center even before the industrial revolution.
Riiiiight. Real "Prussian Academy of Sciences" up there.
And let's not forget the contributions of William Rowan Hamilton, James Watt, or Lord Kelvin during and after the Industrial Revolution.
He didn't forget about the contributions that the Scots made during the industrial revolution. He fucking cited it, and I quoted it!
Sowell himself got this idea from Grady McWhiney, who created the Celtic Thesis out of whole cloth. Simply put the Celtic Thesis cannot be correct because more Ulster-Scots immigrated to the north, prior to the civil war than to the south.
Just because there is a larger number of immigrants does not mean that the impact of those immigrants are the same. You haven't read it, but he's written an entire book on the issue called "Immigration And Culture".
Each wave of immigration represents specific peoples of specific places of specific times. Sowell goes on to explicitly point out that even Japanese immigrants to Brazil, coming from the exact same city and places, had entirely different cultures because they immigrated from Japan in completely different times, when Japan had entirely different environments. He points out the same thing for Chinese immigrants as well coming to the US. Not only do different provinces and regions of China generate different results, but even different neighborhoods. Compounded with cultural differences in time, there's no reason to believe that all immigrants are going to behave exactly the same; but they will be taking many of their home lives with them to the new place.
It sounds to me that you're obsessing about a racial determinist hypothesis of the Ulster-Scotts that he isn't making, because it's one you probably make on your own time.
We would need to know which time frame Ulster-Scott people (in time) migrated to which area. We would also need to know how much of have been effected by other communities, and if they would have continued to isolate themselves out from other communities that could have effected them. It's possible that northern communities could have adopted more New England attitudes. Additionally, the situation could be reversed in the south where other groups fed into the same bad cultural behavior and magnified the problem.
All of this is an interesting look into how immigration effects societies, and how societies effect immigrants, but because your making crazy statements about a 'blood libel', I need to stop and point out that he mentioned that the Ulster-Scotts moved the fuck on and aren't doing anything like this now.
Again, changes between domestic and immigrant populations are another topic he goes over in that book.
He is just another leftist looking to blame whitey.
While this is hilariously wrong on it's face with anyone who's read anything by the man at all, I'd love to hear your explanation about why he has more than one chapter dedicated to the fact that both English colonists and Indian settlers in Africa repeatedly complained about the difficulty of Africans being unable to adopt the cultural techniques that would make them productive, or even reliable, workers in any sense of the imagination. Including, but not limited to, all of the things you quoted.
This is also ignoring the fact that I specifically pointed a quote where he identifies that black students just don't work as hard as whites.
I'm sure the guy who was arguing against mandatory busing and racial quotas in the 80's has really been a crypto-black-supremacist for the past 7 decades.
Finally lets look at where Sowell is coming from... Harvard and Columbia University...
And then he got a Ph.D in the University of Chicago, adopted Chicago School economics, and has been teaching at the Hoover Institution since before I was born, you utterly mis-shapen banana.
Oh no, are we gonna talk about "Crackers"? hue hue hue
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Thomas Sowell:
Oh no...
Oh no...
OH NO...
OH NO
NO NO NO
OH GOD NOT BASED W.E.B. DU BOIS
DON'T BRING UP THE JEWS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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No, but really, if these people want to know about crackers, they should look in a mirror.
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Comment Approved: It looks like Gizortnik is citing Thomas Sowell, and from the giant argument that was going on, it's about culture.
Let's do a little test here, change this:
to this:
Hmm, it seems that Mr. Sowell is just a black supremacist with better PR. And of course W.E.B Du Bois is probably one of the most evil men to live in America.
You wouldn't post a white supremacist's rants about blacks or jew. Stop posting black supremacist's versions of the same.
Sino et. al, delenda est
I don't think you've ever read anything by Thomas Sowell outside of that paragraph. I don't think you've even read the rest of my comment.
You're actually missing the entire point about what he's saying. That culture was specific to Ulster-Scotts. That archaic Ulster-Scott culture has been mostly abandoned by whites in the modern era. The last paragraph in my comment specifically points out that Black racial identitarians maintained and promoted that adopted archaic Ulster-Scott culture in black ghettos. That culture was explicitly abandoned by the Ulster-Scotts themselves during Scotland's sudden development.
Here. Sowell noting quite early that Ulster-Scotts people, and Scotts generally transformed dramatically through the 1700's & 1800's compared to when the Ulster-Scotts arrived in America:
And, he also goes on that White New Englanders were a major force for intentionally destablaizing and removing that archaic Ulster-Scott culture by promoting, what is effectively, the Protestant English Work Ethic:
I don't know how you can say a Black Supremacist is identifying that Blacks adopted a dominant white culture, but were also influenced away from that dominant culture by a, frankly, superior white culture that uplifted them as well... and that other whites benefited from promoting a worse culture since it maintained dependency on Leftist policies. That's not any Black Supremacist argument I've ever heard of.
Then you go on to say this:
So... about the Jews:
And as for Blacks...
"By and large, black students do not work as hard as white students" ... that's uh... not exactly a black supremacist statement, now is it?
You are the one that missed the point. Sowell's (and your) entire argument, essentially that whites set a bad example for blacks and thus it isn't blacks fault, rests on false, racially (and formerly nationally) motivated blood libel, which since it is directed at the right target, you are more than happy to repeat. No bad tactics, right?
So lets go through point by point and show just how fucking wrong he is.
The idea that Scotland only modernized during the 1700 and 1800's is falsified by the existence of John Napier and Colin MacLaurin among others. Scotland was every bit a leading scientific center even before the industrial revolution. And let's not forget the contributions of William Rowan Hamilton, James Watt, or Lord Kelvin during and after the Industrial Revolution.
The defamation of the Celts comes straight from the English academics who were creating propaganda against their hereditary enemies (when they weren't fighting their other hereditary enemies, the Germans or the French). Since the English won all the various wars against Scotland and Ireland and ruled them with an iron fist that would make China blush, their propaganda survived.
Sowell himself got this idea from Grady McWhiney, who created the Celtic Thesis out of whole cloth. Simply put the Celtic Thesis cannot be correct because more Ulster-Scots immigrated to the north, prior to the civil war than to the south. Specifically the potato famine occurred in the 1840's and 1850's, which makes Sowell's aside, "(Significantly the Irish, who retained their Celtic ways, did not.)", irrelevant as it would be some 60 years (3-4 generations) before the "Great Migration", and the subsequent opportunity for blacks to mix with and ape the Ulster-Scots. Thus the attribution that blacks learned this from Whites is also false on its on merits.
Finally lets look at where Sowell is coming from... Harvard and Columbia University... and then he taught on the Left coast for the rest of his career. He is just another leftist looking to blame whitey. He just hides it way better than most.
No it doesn't. His point is that culture, and especially family and community ties, is a major aspect that determines economic success. You seem to have selectively parts of what he said, assumed the absolute worst possible interpretation, ignored anything that contradicts you, and burried you head in the sand screaming about Leftists and Black supremacy.
My god, you ignored the point that New England whites explicitly set a good example which lead to blacks achieving a 50% literacy rate from 0% literacy rate within 3 generations which is effectively unheard of.
You also ignored that his complaints about blacks... were coming from black people!
What the absolute fuck are you talking about? He never said anything even kind of like that.
The thing he genuine condemns more than anything else is the welfare state for supporting, endorsing, an incentivizing the destruction of the family unit.
Riiiiight. Real "Prussian Academy of Sciences" up there.
He didn't forget about the contributions that the Scots made during the industrial revolution. He fucking cited it, and I quoted it!
Just because there is a larger number of immigrants does not mean that the impact of those immigrants are the same. You haven't read it, but he's written an entire book on the issue called "Immigration And Culture".
Each wave of immigration represents specific peoples of specific places of specific times. Sowell goes on to explicitly point out that even Japanese immigrants to Brazil, coming from the exact same city and places, had entirely different cultures because they immigrated from Japan in completely different times, when Japan had entirely different environments. He points out the same thing for Chinese immigrants as well coming to the US. Not only do different provinces and regions of China generate different results, but even different neighborhoods. Compounded with cultural differences in time, there's no reason to believe that all immigrants are going to behave exactly the same; but they will be taking many of their home lives with them to the new place.
It sounds to me that you're obsessing about a racial determinist hypothesis of the Ulster-Scotts that he isn't making, because it's one you probably make on your own time.
We would need to know which time frame Ulster-Scott people (in time) migrated to which area. We would also need to know how much of have been effected by other communities, and if they would have continued to isolate themselves out from other communities that could have effected them. It's possible that northern communities could have adopted more New England attitudes. Additionally, the situation could be reversed in the south where other groups fed into the same bad cultural behavior and magnified the problem.
All of this is an interesting look into how immigration effects societies, and how societies effect immigrants, but because your making crazy statements about a 'blood libel', I need to stop and point out that he mentioned that the Ulster-Scotts moved the fuck on and aren't doing anything like this now.
Again, changes between domestic and immigrant populations are another topic he goes over in that book.
While this is hilariously wrong on it's face with anyone who's read anything by the man at all, I'd love to hear your explanation about why he has more than one chapter dedicated to the fact that both English colonists and Indian settlers in Africa repeatedly complained about the difficulty of Africans being unable to adopt the cultural techniques that would make them productive, or even reliable, workers in any sense of the imagination. Including, but not limited to, all of the things you quoted.
This is also ignoring the fact that I specifically pointed a quote where he identifies that black students just don't work as hard as whites.
I'm sure the guy who was arguing against mandatory busing and racial quotas in the 80's has really been a crypto-black-supremacist for the past 7 decades.
And then he got a Ph.D in the University of Chicago, adopted Chicago School economics, and has been teaching at the Hoover Institution since before I was born, you utterly mis-shapen banana.