A good example of what you're speaking of is there are less than 5,000 words in the Constitution. The Commerce Dept recently wrote a regulation containing over 100,000 words on the SALE OF CABBAGE.
I feel like government regulators have a goal to make things so complicated as to discourage independent family farmers and small business entrepreneurs from starting up.
@@KAMAKAZE_ZC ...BINGO! Big Government has always been about creating a handful of Elites running a world populated by worker drones. That's exactly what the founders of the United States wanted to avoid.
I love pipes, good tobacco, and History! What separates The Pipe Cottage from other Tobacco pipe forums and websites is the content doesn't stop there, but moves on to higher topics from content creators like yourself and Steve Perkins. As much as I love good pipes and tobacco, it's the History, Philosophy, and stories about life that keep me interested. If there's one thing I'd like to see happen at The Pipe Cottage, it would be more content and more creators.
I love listening and learning about the old southern traditions and culture of the south, especially in South Carolina. Tobacco and pipe stories from the old south is a plus. Thanks for all of this history that you share
Been listening to (in chunks) a 3-hour long interview with Mr. Shelby Foote on C-Span. Had I not found your channel last year, I would have never stumbled upon this gold mine. Doctor, have you considered “learnin’” us about the Civil War? I’d be interested if you could make a series about what you think most Americans ought to know, as most Americans will not take the time to delve deeply into the subject themselves. If you cannot smoke a pipe while you record such a series, I would be happy to help with that on my end.
Mr. Harrelson, I have aways been drawn to my Southern roots. Though I was not born and raised in the South, I have a lot of family that still resides there in Louisiana, and I have visited several times over my lifetime, and have been to Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, and Georgia as well. I could never exactly put my finger on why I was so drawn to the South other than enjoying spending time with my extended family, but you have articulated it perfectly. What you are discussing here I 100% agree with and I have always been drawn to the natural world. I grew up in a rural town, I've been to the cities and have determined that I will spend the remainder of my life in a rural area. I love your insights and would absolutely love to here more of what you have to say regarding the history, culture, and tradition of the great American South. I was not subscribed before today, but I am now. God bless you, Sir.
Doctor-Brother, these Southern Agrarian topic videos along with tobacco growing and curing are my favorite from you. I enjoy the catholic stuff too, and the history, but as an Ohioan, I find the southern form of the agrarian movement fascinating. Of course, I'm living in a small city of 374 thousand people here in Japan. We're planning on moving stateside next year, if everything goes according to plan, but that's a whole other topic.
Is Latakia better smoked when it’s cold or somethin? I live up north too and was wondering if it’s worth smoking outside in the cold given the condensation created in sub zero temps….
Please make more videos like this on history, literature about the southern lifestyle, and the southern way of life… while smoking a pipe. They’re incredibly informative and entertaining. You’ve sparked an interest in the old southern way of life that was buried inside me. As a man raised in East Tennessee I’ve always felt connected to the old way of life, never being attractive to the cities. My favorite places are southern museums that show how life was back in the truly good ole days. Thank you for being an example for young men on how to stand on your belief system and be a true gentleman whilst doing it.
Your non-rhotic drawl is very easy on the ears, my Southern brother. Your fellow pipe man from Mississippi (the western colony of South Carolina) sends greetings!
The “southern music” abbeville institute lecture is the first place I found you on RUclips and also why I continue to check what you’re up. I appreciate your your thoughts on anything southern
Thank you for your narrative on this topic. I believe you are correct in saying there is more interest with young people in living our agrarian roots. I think there will be more incentives to do so as regulations are tailored for this lifestyle. I also believe your channel will grow well with covering history and how it pertains to us in the present time, along with videos on the simple pleasures of smoking a pipe and all that entails.
I think it would be interesting to see a video comparing literature and philosophy from different regions of the South. Perhaps a series introducing great writers and thinkers from each Southern state and then discussing the regional themes found among them.
On your recommendation I read "Our Father's Fields". It had a lasting impact on me in many different ways. Looks like I'll be reading another book now, too We already have a large library. You have caused it to increase in size, which is not something I'm unhappy about.
Sitting on the "pizer" right now and smoking some of The Briary's t'baccee whilst sipping on bourbon and watching my dog run wild. Life is good. Keep the content coming, sir. Coming at you from the dichotomosly named city that is both the Cradle of the Confederacy and the Birthplace of Civil Rights.
With all due respect, I suggest that the South holds Some keys to American culture. Small scale agriculture and land economy is great. However, tractors, well pumps, electricity all else that we rely one for that lifestyle depends on factory work, and the capital and security necessary for both come from banks and insurers. So as much as we ought to defend and propagate the philosophy you're talking about here, perhaps the fullness of it is that we as one country have not just one, but multiple keys, South, North, midwest, etc. E Pluribus Unum, if you will.
Good video as always. If I could throw a suggestion for a civil war book worth reading that doesn't demonize the south or the north it would be Jack Hinson's one man war. Tells the story of the deadliest sniper in the war and lists some of his still standing achievements including leading general Forrest to the spot where he was part of the highest ranked artillery crew in military history bombarding a union fort. It takes some minor liberties to make a better story about Hinson's camp and his thoughts but is good overall.
I once asked a professor I respected to recommend some books. He said Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and anything by Walker Percy. I tried and found some glimmerings of interest, but ultimately they are beyond my own ability to delve deep in and find the gold. I know it is not history, but it is Southern and Catholic. If you felt able and inclined to do so, I would love to hear you go into a deep dive of these works. Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman is one that drew my interest the most. Thank you, good sir!
Alan , I to wish that more folks would embrace an agrarian culture. Slow down and allow yourself time to think,reflect and examine ones life. Thank you for your time sir.
Would love to start my own tobacco farm due to the insane taxes on buying tobacco products, but then to find out i need to have a contract with a tobacco company just to have my own crop is ridiculous
@thepipecottage3301 I misunderstood I believed it was that if you wanted to grow it regardless you had to have a contract. I may need to grow my own after all.
Really enjoy your channel. Not only your pipe content but your cultural takes. I’m from LA but live in Colombia now. Also love southern writers. Percy, Welty, O’Connor and of course Faulkner. Trying to convert from cigars to pipes. Any tips on rehydrating tobacco? I know your busy but thought I’d take a chance and ask. Thanks in advance.
STILL arguing against Hamilton??? haha Glad to see the timeless debate still going on. Great content although I differ greatly in opinion regarding the Jeffersonian ideals. Thanks for the recommendation about North Against South. Foote's works are masterful, and Battle Cry of Freedom is a good single volume. I'm about to finish Guelzo's biography of Robert E Lee and Chernow's Grant. Will pick up North Against South next and read it while smoking some HH Pure Virginia.
Something I have pondered recently and have been looking at is how agriculture fell out of my family (and is being reintroduced) by generation. I am big on ancestry research. From 2nd great grandfathers back through the generations were almost 95% farmers. An occasional blacksmith, but they also farmed. My great grandfathers were farmers, but also tended to have another job as well, except for 1, who was exclusively a farmer. My grandfathers had job and owned a business, but they both gardened extensively. Large gardens where they sold or gave away a lot of food. Sweet corn and tomatoes. My parents own a business. Neither care about gardening. They tend to and keep up their land, a large tract of pine and hardwood, but no agriculture or hobby farming. I am now a part owner in the family business. However, I have begun slowly gardening and scale up each year. I find it interesting how quickly a lifestyle so deeply ingrained in my families(all of my families are heritage americans, pre revolution, and 99% from Virginia and southward) could disappear.
Count me as one who would like more of this sort of video. Aside: if you haven't already, you should read Apostolic Farming by Catherine Doherty (founder of Madonna House).
Dr. Harrelson, i greatly appreciate your literary reviews. Literary reviews of southern agrarian studies, like the bible provides us the armor of God these reviews enlighten us men of the south with armor of knowledge to help navigate the insufferable ignorance that resides in society. Where the Abbeyville institute has shifted its course, i encourage you to continue this endeavor and fill the void.
People who smoke pipes seem to enjoy it so much that about a month ago I decided to give it a try. Bought a nice Bing's Favorite Savinelli and a sample pack of Davidoff tobacco and got to work at it (cleaning the pipe between smokes by the method most recommended), starting with one bowl a day, and gradually progressing to three a day. I have perceived very little that's pleasant in it. The taste is more bad than good, although the aroma is nice. On top of that, on occasion I feel dizzy after a smoke, but sometimes nauseous. I decided to stick with it, thinking I just needed to do it for long enough a period of time to eventually start getting more of the positive experience other's do, but to no avail. Been a month, and no improvement. What's that about?? I was sure hoping for a pleasant experience with it, if I stuck to it, but no.
Go to your local pipe supply and get an ounce of the most popular in your area. Experiment with smoking with a different cadence. I’ve found that if the tobacco was too dry and I puffed too hard it tasted bad. You can always take a break and try it again later or you can stop entirely if you don’t like it.
I’m with you, but we probably should not forget to thank those tech/machine/working-for-wealth folks, as they are providing the farm equipment and the means for these great videos to be available to spark the revolution. Perhaps your revolution will reach a point where the machine model becomes unnecessary some day? An Amish-like culture?
Sir may i ask a question from over the pond here in the U.K? I am planning to start a pipe channel, and i was wondering if RUclips demonetizes pipe channels? i know they demonetize almost anything to do with truth these days.
I know you don't care too much for Jordan Peterson, but he has a Peterson Academy you should look in to. I think you would be perfect for having a course on that. It's exactly the style of education system that you were referring to previously, not controlled by anyone, full freedom for you to do the type of lectures YOU chose to do.
To the question of the title, I would have to say no. According to NumbersUSA's study, what is "the south" anymore? If you go back in time to hunt for a solution, maybe, but right now 'the south' is very much being overrun by people not of 'the south'. 1 in 4 people are first generation immigrants from thirdworld countries. Yankees are everywhere, moving away from the very states that they ruined with their constant desire to fund things from the tax coffers or support corrupt officials. So where is "the south" when "the south" has simply been replaced? How can we say that 'the south' has the key to the culture when there's no culture here anymore?
While I do agree with what you’re saying about agrarian lifestyle. I wouldn’t say it’s exclusively southern. I grew up in North Dakota. We were very much tied to the land. My family isn’t a family of farmers but we had victory gardens in our backyards. We canned our produce. We hunted and fished to put meat in the freezer. We shared our bounty with our neighbors. The town I lived in had around 12,000 residents and people still knew each other. It always surprised us children when strangers would tell us to whom we belonged.
The Southern land culture of the past is not feasible in this day and age. There is not enough affordable land available to those of normal means wanting to purchase it. With Corporations purchasing land preventing the breakup of large sections and counties passing Urban Sprawl laws. For the majority of Americans It is a dead concept unfortunately.
If by American culture you mean lowest quality of life, highest rates of obesity, lowest level of education. shortest life expectancy, highest murder rates, etc. Hats off to you Southerners.
I DO want to see more of this. I love the pipe and tobacco content but this history/philosophy/cultural discourse is much needed.
I agree. There is too much mindless dribble out there. I put this book on my Amazon list to purchase.
A good example of what you're speaking of is there are less than 5,000 words in the Constitution. The Commerce Dept recently wrote a regulation containing over 100,000 words on the SALE OF CABBAGE.
I feel like government regulators have a goal to make things so complicated as to discourage independent family farmers and small business entrepreneurs from starting up.
@@KAMAKAZE_ZC ...BINGO! Big Government has always been about creating a handful of Elites running a world populated by worker drones. That's exactly what the founders of the United States wanted to avoid.
Cabbage is the most underrated vegetable, and it certainly deserves 100000 words of praise, but not regulation.
I love pipes, good tobacco, and History!
What separates The Pipe Cottage from other Tobacco pipe forums and websites is the content doesn't stop there, but moves on to higher topics from content creators like yourself and Steve Perkins. As much as I love good pipes and tobacco, it's the History, Philosophy, and stories about life that keep me interested. If there's one thing I'd like to see happen at The Pipe Cottage, it would be more content and more creators.
I love listening and learning about the old southern traditions and culture of the south, especially in South Carolina. Tobacco and pipe stories from the old south is a plus. Thanks for all of this history that you share
Been listening to (in chunks) a 3-hour long interview with Mr. Shelby Foote on C-Span. Had I not found your channel last year, I would have never stumbled upon this gold mine.
Doctor, have you considered “learnin’” us about the Civil War? I’d be interested if you could make a series about what you think most Americans ought to know, as most Americans will not take the time to delve deeply into the subject themselves. If you cannot smoke a pipe while you record such a series, I would be happy to help with that on my end.
Mr. Harrelson, I have aways been drawn to my Southern roots. Though I was not born and raised in the South, I have a lot of family that still resides there in Louisiana, and I have visited several times over my lifetime, and have been to Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, and Georgia as well. I could never exactly put my finger on why I was so drawn to the South other than enjoying spending time with my extended family, but you have articulated it perfectly. What you are discussing here I 100% agree with and I have always been drawn to the natural world. I grew up in a rural town, I've been to the cities and have determined that I will spend the remainder of my life in a rural area. I love your insights and would absolutely love to here more of what you have to say regarding the history, culture, and tradition of the great American South. I was not subscribed before today, but I am now. God bless you, Sir.
Doctor-Brother, these Southern Agrarian topic videos along with tobacco growing and curing are my favorite from you. I enjoy the catholic stuff too, and the history, but as an Ohioan, I find the southern form of the agrarian movement fascinating. Of course, I'm living in a small city of 374 thousand people here in Japan. We're planning on moving stateside next year, if everything goes according to plan, but that's a whole other topic.
Hello from Canada 🇨🇦 - a Latakia time of the year !
Is Latakia better smoked when it’s cold or somethin? I live up north too and was wondering if it’s worth smoking outside in the cold given the condensation created in sub zero temps….
@ I find it reminds me of sitting beside a roaring fire on a cold prairie evening 🔥…Subjectively sublime (;
Anything you’d recommend ? I’ve heard of Boswells Northwoods - any experience with that blend ?
Thank you for the response, I’ll have to do some research on these and so how they taste. Thanks 🙏🏼
Thanks!
Please make more videos like this on history, literature about the southern lifestyle, and the southern way of life… while smoking a pipe. They’re incredibly informative and entertaining. You’ve sparked an interest in the old southern way of life that was buried inside me. As a man raised in East Tennessee I’ve always felt connected to the old way of life, never being attractive to the cities. My favorite places are southern museums that show how life was back in the truly good ole days. Thank you for being an example for young men on how to stand on your belief system and be a true gentleman whilst doing it.
Good afternoon Alan, I’m sitting on the porch of my 1852 house. Pipe in hand of course. Enjoying another one of your videos! Thank you for content.
Your non-rhotic drawl is very easy on the ears, my Southern brother. Your fellow pipe man from Mississippi (the western colony of South Carolina) sends greetings!
The “southern music” abbeville institute lecture is the first place I found you on RUclips and also why I continue to check what you’re up. I appreciate your your thoughts on anything southern
Very interesting discussion. Very much appreciated. Please do more of this.
I enjoy your content no matter if its about Pipes or History, love both subjects.
Thank you for your narrative on this topic. I believe you are correct in saying there is more interest with young people in living our agrarian roots. I think there will be more incentives to do so as regulations are tailored for this lifestyle. I also believe your channel will grow well with covering history and how it pertains to us in the present time, along with videos on the simple pleasures of smoking a pipe and all that entails.
I enjoy videos like this one, and I appreciate your book recommendations.
I think it would be interesting to see a video comparing literature and philosophy from different regions of the South. Perhaps a series introducing great writers and thinkers from each Southern state and then discussing the regional themes found among them.
On your recommendation I read "Our Father's Fields". It had a lasting impact on me in many different ways. Looks like I'll be reading another book now, too We already have a large library. You have caused it to increase in size, which is not something I'm unhappy about.
I really appreciate your history lessons
Sitting on the "pizer" right now and smoking some of The Briary's t'baccee whilst sipping on bourbon and watching my dog run wild. Life is good. Keep the content coming, sir. Coming at you from the dichotomosly named city that is both the Cradle of the Confederacy and the Birthplace of Civil Rights.
Always love book recommendations. Copies of North Against South are going for more than $100 online.
Excellent piece. Thank you.
With all due respect, I suggest that the South holds Some keys to American culture. Small scale agriculture and land economy is great. However, tractors, well pumps, electricity all else that we rely one for that lifestyle depends on factory work, and the capital and security necessary for both come from banks and insurers. So as much as we ought to defend and propagate the philosophy you're talking about here, perhaps the fullness of it is that we as one country have not just one, but multiple keys, South, North, midwest, etc. E Pluribus Unum, if you will.
Good video as always. If I could throw a suggestion for a civil war book worth reading that doesn't demonize the south or the north it would be Jack Hinson's one man war. Tells the story of the deadliest sniper in the war and lists some of his still standing achievements including leading general Forrest to the spot where he was part of the highest ranked artillery crew in military history bombarding a union fort. It takes some minor liberties to make a better story about Hinson's camp and his thoughts but is good overall.
I once asked a professor I respected to recommend some books. He said Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and anything by Walker Percy. I tried and found some glimmerings of interest, but ultimately they are beyond my own ability to delve deep in and find the gold. I know it is not history, but it is Southern and Catholic. If you felt able and inclined to do so, I would love to hear you go into a deep dive of these works. Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman is one that drew my interest the most. Thank you, good sir!
Love this type of content! Much need voice out here Mr. Harrelson
Alan , I to wish that more folks would embrace an agrarian culture. Slow down and allow yourself time to think,reflect and examine ones life. Thank you for your time sir.
Would love to start my own tobacco farm due to the insane taxes on buying tobacco products, but then to find out i need to have a contract with a tobacco company just to have my own crop is ridiculous
If you want to sell it, then yes, it’s difficult. If you just want to grow for yourself, no reason you can’t.
@thepipecottage3301 I misunderstood I believed it was that if you wanted to grow it regardless you had to have a contract. I may need to grow my own after all.
Always a pleasure Dr. Allen...
Really enjoy your channel. Not only your pipe content but your cultural takes. I’m from LA but live in Colombia now. Also love southern writers. Percy, Welty, O’Connor and of course Faulkner. Trying to convert from cigars to pipes. Any tips on rehydrating tobacco? I know your busy but thought I’d take a chance and ask. Thanks in advance.
This was excellent. More, please.
STILL arguing against Hamilton??? haha Glad to see the timeless debate still going on. Great content although I differ greatly in opinion regarding the Jeffersonian ideals. Thanks for the recommendation about North Against South. Foote's works are masterful, and Battle Cry of Freedom is a good single volume. I'm about to finish Guelzo's biography of Robert E Lee and Chernow's Grant. Will pick up North Against South next and read it while smoking some HH Pure Virginia.
My, this stirred the mind. Thank ya.
Hello from Ireland
Appreciated discussion. Thank you Sir.
Love this content!
Something I have pondered recently and have been looking at is how agriculture fell out of my family (and is being reintroduced) by generation. I am big on ancestry research. From 2nd great grandfathers back through the generations were almost 95% farmers. An occasional blacksmith, but they also farmed. My great grandfathers were farmers, but also tended to have another job as well, except for 1, who was exclusively a farmer. My grandfathers had job and owned a business, but they both gardened extensively. Large gardens where they sold or gave away a lot of food. Sweet corn and tomatoes. My parents own a business. Neither care about gardening. They tend to and keep up their land, a large tract of pine and hardwood, but no agriculture or hobby farming. I am now a part owner in the family business. However, I have begun slowly gardening and scale up each year. I find it interesting how quickly a lifestyle so deeply ingrained in my families(all of my families are heritage americans, pre revolution, and 99% from Virginia and southward) could disappear.
Brilliant keep up the great work. God bless you.
I have a cockateil that is 23 yrs old....enjoyed the video
" They live forever mostly !" ( Long John Silver ) I know it was a parrot, but they are similar !
Did you buy that pipe recently? I swear I was looking at that very one because of the shape of the top of the bowl.
Thank you Alan
Count me as one who would like more of this sort of video. Aside: if you haven't already, you should read Apostolic Farming by Catherine Doherty (founder of Madonna House).
Yes, more history and culture!
Interesting analysis & review...
I do think that little home steds are coming back around enjoy your video
Southern or Northern don't forget those countries from whence ye came.
Dr. Harrelson, i greatly appreciate your literary reviews. Literary reviews of southern agrarian studies, like the bible provides us the armor of God these reviews enlighten us men of the south with armor of knowledge to help navigate the insufferable ignorance that resides in society. Where the Abbeyville institute has shifted its course, i encourage you to continue this endeavor and fill the void.
Alan, can you share your thoughts about what's going on with Sutliff?
“In the South 19th century lasted a bit longer.”
Perhaps timeless is a better description. And I for one, agree with all of these sentiments.
People who smoke pipes seem to enjoy it so much that about a month ago I decided to give it a try. Bought a nice Bing's Favorite Savinelli and a sample pack of Davidoff tobacco and got to work at it (cleaning the pipe between smokes by the method most recommended), starting with one bowl a day, and gradually progressing to three a day. I have perceived very little that's pleasant in it. The taste is more bad than good, although the aroma is nice. On top of that, on occasion I feel dizzy after a smoke, but sometimes nauseous. I decided to stick with it, thinking I just needed to do it for long enough a period of time to eventually start getting more of the positive experience other's do, but to no avail. Been a month, and no improvement. What's that about?? I was sure hoping for a pleasant experience with it, if I stuck to it, but no.
Go to your local pipe supply and get an ounce of the most popular in your area. Experiment with smoking with a different cadence. I’ve found that if the tobacco was too dry and I puffed too hard it tasted bad. You can always take a break and try it again later or you can stop entirely if you don’t like it.
@@bobmilleit1976 That's all true. Taking it more easy with the puffing does help a lot.
Ok good Dr. Let's grow it!
Is there an audio version of the book?
I’m with you, but we probably should not forget to thank those tech/machine/working-for-wealth folks, as they are providing the farm equipment and the means for these great videos to be available to spark the revolution. Perhaps your revolution will reach a point where the machine model becomes unnecessary some day? An Amish-like culture?
I really enjoy hearing your clock. What type is it?
Good stuff
I recently got a few of wendell berrys works. Are there any specifics you lean too?
Love it!
The civil war book you suggested to read is very expensive on Amazon. Any other place to buy it cheaper?
Sir may i ask a question from over the pond here in the U.K?
I am planning to start a pipe channel, and i was wondering if RUclips demonetizes pipe channels? i know they demonetize almost anything to do with truth these days.
Hello fae Bonnie Scotland 🏴
Virginia was the cradle of American culture.
Love it
Six words in and I knew you were from South Carolina.
It 2qs the end of Video... It just sounded like Anderson to me....
We do.
👍🏻👍🏻
I know you don't care too much for Jordan Peterson, but he has a Peterson Academy you should look in to. I think you would be perfect for having a course on that. It's exactly the style of education system that you were referring to previously, not controlled by anyone, full freedom for you to do the type of lectures YOU chose to do.
👍👍👍
Please do more history! Agraraian and otherwise. Thank you!
I pray my Southland can have her Independence once more.
Your cockatiel wouldn't happen to be named after Winston Churchill would he?
Indeed!
alot of bad agriculture came to be due to government subsidies that started during the depression if i recall correctly.
I do want to see more history content
love watching your videos while smoking a pipe or cigar
Please keep pushing out this type of media.
To the question of the title, I would have to say no. According to NumbersUSA's study, what is "the south" anymore? If you go back in time to hunt for a solution, maybe, but right now 'the south' is very much being overrun by people not of 'the south'. 1 in 4 people are first generation immigrants from thirdworld countries. Yankees are everywhere, moving away from the very states that they ruined with their constant desire to fund things from the tax coffers or support corrupt officials. So where is "the south" when "the south" has simply been replaced? How can we say that 'the south' has the key to the culture when there's no culture here anymore?
Enjoy your prospective along with pipe smoking
While I do agree with what you’re saying about agrarian lifestyle. I wouldn’t say it’s exclusively southern. I grew up in North Dakota. We were very much tied to the land. My family isn’t a family of farmers but we had victory gardens in our backyards. We canned our produce. We hunted and fished to put meat in the freezer. We shared our bounty with our neighbors.
The town I lived in had around 12,000 residents and people still knew each other. It always surprised us children when strangers would tell us to whom we belonged.
The Southern land culture of the past is not feasible in this day and age. There is not enough affordable land available to those of normal means wanting to purchase it. With Corporations purchasing land preventing the breakup of large sections and counties passing Urban Sprawl laws. For the majority of Americans It is a dead concept unfortunately.
The majority of Americans haven’t wanted to live a countryside lifestyle for decades now. I don’t make videos for a majority.
Keep teaching brother
1st here...awesome content
The South IS the American culture
If by American culture you mean lowest quality of life, highest rates of obesity, lowest level of education. shortest life expectancy, highest murder rates, etc. Hats off to you Southerners.
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Short answer - yes, the South has always held the keys to American culture - ref Virginia.
I adore this content.