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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Things I Miss

12/6/2020

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Bookstores

Barbershops

White picket fences

Comic books that were actually intended to be funny

When boys could play football in the street without fear or helmets

When a boy could explore the woods alone with a rifle (probably an old .22)

Old Fashioned service stations with 35 cent per gallon gas and air pumps that were free and actually worked

The Southern Methodist Church

I don’t miss it but it was certainly a better time when all young men went into the service instead of just poor men (and women).

A country too honourable to put women in harm’s way

Smokehouses and tobacco curing barns

Huge pots of Brunswick stew cooked and served outdoors

Old-time windup Southern orators in white suits. (My favourite was Senator Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina.)

When abortions were done rarely and quietly and only for rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.

When county courthouses and state buildings were not armed fortresses excluding citizens
4 Comments
Joe Johnson
12/6/2020 05:57:59 pm

Old fashioned Democrats: George Wallace, Sam Erin, Frank Rizzo, Sr. etc.

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Kenneth Robbins
12/11/2020 06:07:51 am

I miss Southern men with courage and principles. I miss Southern leaders, we have not had one since George Wallace.

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Bill Hill
12/13/2020 02:05:22 pm

A lot of these things could be brought back, maybe not exactly as they were, but in essence. Also don’t forget Real Country music.

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Brett Moffatt
12/15/2020 08:10:25 pm

Old men sitting around the courthouse square on Saturday morning, or in front of the old country store

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    Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews

    Dr. Wilson is also is co-publisher of Shotwell Publishing, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books. 

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