![]() Yet from different sides of the continental, racial, and social divide, Sowell chooses to rely on McWhiney to argue that urban black culture developed from antebellum, southern white culture. The recently deceased Grady McWhiney, on the other hand, was an influential and controversial historian of the South, both in residence and in specialty, who in his book Cracker Culture referred to the Civil War as the “War of Southern Independence,” and who was the former president of the League of the South, a neo-confederate organization that desires a ‘free and independent Southern republic,’ and has been accused by some as a hate group. ![]() ![]() Thomas Sowell is an African-American economist, columnist and historian born in the South (North Carolina), raised and educated in the North (Harvard, Columbia and the University of Chicago) who admittedly found going back to the South painful and awkward. Outside of their shared, conservative political leanings, they are quite different. Thomas Sowell is perhaps the most unexpected heir to the legacy of recently deceased historian Grady McWhiney. Tartans and Bling: Thomas Sowell’s Tracing of Urban Black Culture to the Grady McWhiney’s 'Celtic Fringe' ![]()
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