Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Retreat To Fiction

AlterNet: The Confederacy Making a Comeback in the South? KKK Grand Wizard Glorified, Civil Rights Heroes Ignored - As Southern whites sink into economic despair, more and more are retreating into a fictional past.

1 comment:

Glynn Kalara said...

This is how Nazism happened and took root in Germany in the 20's and 30's. First they had an enormous inflation in the early 20's that wiped out the middle classes and then a depression that finished them off. By 31' many German's had retreated into the heroic German myths of the past. The Nazis held huge pageants and rallies depicting their connection to these figs. from the mythic German past. This is what is happening all over the south today.