374:"As a general thing, the Southerner is burdened by his unhappy past; he doesn't understand it, and he finds it hard to accept. The white Southerner is further confused by the myth of a splendid past, a myth woven during the dark decades from 1865 to 1900, and now, though our minds begin to warn us, still believed in our hearts. Believed and desired. According to this myth, the South was once a complete, perhaps perfect creation, envied by the North, and out of envy attacked, defeated, and crippled. The trouble with this picture is that it is not so."
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having obtained it several generations earlier. The McBride family were conservative planters, Dabbs called them "the inheritors of the culture of the old South." Dabbs' mother died when he was twelve years old and his relationship with his father, a poor overseer who married into money, was not
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377:"Now, the theory that this lower strata can control society and tell the upper class what to do is nonsense to my mind. The lower class will do, by and large, what the people who own the mortgages and the land and the capital will tell them to do. You don't have to tell them outright."
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Dabbs believed that God put
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Dabbs was also criticized for his belief that the South had the capacity to lead the nation in race relations. As well as his blindness to the "rage" that
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