Karen L. Cox
Karen L. Cox was born in Huntington, West Virginia. She moved with her family to North Carolina when she was eleven and attended public schools in Greensboro. She has also lived in Mississippi and Washington, DC. Now a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she is the author of Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture and Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was Created in American Popular Culture. She also authors the blog Pop South: Reflections on the South in Popular Culture. She’s currently writing a book about a 1932 murder in Natchez, MS, a true Southern gothic story that made national headlines.
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- My pets
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- Income
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- Transportation
- Music
- Devices on which to play music
I just read your article in NYTimes (What Trump shares with Confederacy ‘Lost Cause.’)
It’s an interesting article; Trump’s excessive White-pride and identity – does indeed imbue his politics.
..and no doubt you’re a very accomplished historian.
You say in the article that the lost cause and found support in White Northerners. I’m not sure that is what happened. I am only a 2nd-generation American – who grew up in Yankee territory. It wasn’t until I traveled with my work that I discovered the history of the Old South – and how after the civil-war that those people moved west to Oklahoma, Idaho, the Dakotas.. California.. to the West.. and they intermarried with Northerners. Some of my cousins married them. I think that’s how.. their Lost-Cause and States Rights theories became part of northern and western families.
Correction: “that the Lost Cause (found) support in (White) Northerners..”