EP 22: Crackers & Butter

The Unveiled Patriot with Travis Masterbone

(Apologies for the audio in this episode, there was an issue with my mic, promise to have it fixed next episode!)

In this episode… I introduce you to Dr. Thomas Sowell… One of the greatest thinkers of our time who played a major part in my unveiling and I can’t recommend him enough to my audience. We will consolidate a specific section within his book Black Rednecks & White Liberals… this’ll be fun. Extrapolating specifically on Cracker Culture and Butter. This book is nothing short of brilliance when it comes to the much needed historical context on how the complexities of culture develop overtime and are inherited from overseas. Many historians and scholars, such as Dr. Sowell, identify counterproductive cultural values and behavior patterns in the SOUTH of the US and see similar patterns connecting to their ancestry in Great Britain. Let us dive a bit deeper into the specific values and behaviors relating to VIOLENCE, AVERSION TO WORK, ENTREPRENEURSHIP and EDUCATION… and see how these compare with the northerners of the US….

Butter is involved I swear.

It is astonishing, on how different these regions are in various sectors relating to culture, success, economic development and productivity. These statistical disparities and observations that existed between SOUTHERN WHITES and NORTHERN WHITES in the past… are often taken as EVIDENCE OR PROOF of RACIAL DISCRIMINATION when similar disparities are found between black and white populations today. I don’t buy the blanket term of systemic racism… neither racial discrimination or inferiority can explain these differences we discuss in this episode between northern and southern whites from earlier centuries. Even the differences between northern blacks vs. southern whites… I hope this opens some doors and raises eyebrows for further discussion.

Enjoy. Or not.

Yours Truly.

“What the REDNECKS or CRACKERS brought with them… was a whole constellation of values and behavior patterns that might of made sense in the world they lived in for centuries… but were counterproductive in the world to which they were going… and counterproductive to the blacks… who would live in the midst for centuries, taking with them… similar values…”

REFERENCES:

Thomas Sowell - Black Rednecks & White Liberals

Grady McWhiney - Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the South

David Hackett Fischer - Albion’s Seed

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America