Dixie
A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South
Chapter 1
"We all knew Beckwiths"
The voice sounded faintly menacing, even though he spoke by telephone from hundreds of miles away.
. At the beginning of our conversation, he used an old Southern pronunciation that fell just short of insult -- "nigras" -- but within a couple of minutes his manner degenerated. As he talked, the old man became more exercised, and his reedy whine bristled with malevolence. "Niggers," he told me, "are descendants of the mud people," unworthy of respect. Or life, for that matter.
Then he began ranting about "Babylonian Talmudists."
"Excuse me?"
"The Babylonian Talmudists. Don't you know what a Talmudist is?"
"I think I just figured it out."
"Babylonian Talmudists are a set of dogs," he explained. "If you read in the King James Version of the Bible, you'll see that a dog is a m ... read full excerpt from Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South ebook
