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| | Genesis of the Southern Cracker--American Mercury--by W. J. Cash |
 | | Thus once more, if it had introduced distinctions among white men, the plantation had also introduced that other all-dwarfing distinction between the white man and the fl--at the very moment of the poor-white's degradation, it had elevated him to a tremendous superiority that, come what might, he could never publicly lose. |
 | | The cracker almost completely abandoned economic and social focus, failed wholly to develop class feeling, and, in the great leisure that was his, gave himself up cheerfully to elaborating the old backwoods pattern of amusement and distinction--became in his fashion a remarkable romantic and hedonist. |
 | | Thus, the cracker, seeing hands everywhere reaching down to bear him up, seized them eagerly, grappled back with the pathetic passion of his heritage, and gave himself over fully to the purpose, not of making his own way up but of keeping the fl man down. |
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