By Rebecca Bridges Watts
In modern Southern identification Rebecca Bridges Watts explores the results of 4 public controversies approximately Southern identity--debates in regards to the accomplice flag in South Carolina, the gender integration of the Virginia army Institute, the exhibit of public paintings in Richmond, and Trent Lott's debatable reviews concerning Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid. whereas such debates may possibly function proof of the South's "battle over the past," they could on the other hand be noticeable as harbingers of a altering South. those controversies spotlight the variety of voices within the dialog of what it capacity to be a Southerner. The members in those conflicts may possibly disagree approximately what Southern id may be, yet all of them agree that such discussions are an important a part of being Southern. contemporary debates as to where of previous South symbols and associations within the South of the hot millennium are proof of a altering order. yet a altering South is not any much less certain. If Southerners can locate cohesion and specialty of their identity, they might also be in a position to function a version for the more and more divided usa. The very debates portrayed within the mass media as facts of an "Unfinished Civil conflict" can as a substitute be interpreted as facts that the South has advanced and is having a typical discussion as to what its varied individuals wish it to be.
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Based on these usual (yet understandable) stereotypes of Southerners as advocates of division, VMI is by virtue of its Southernness also associated with social and economic class stratification, a desire to be set apart from others. Many accounts of VMI’s twentieth-century court battles referred to the institute’s role in the Civil War. In response to a negative 1990 opinion column about VMI, alumnus Pedro Alvarez of the Class of 1979 reminded his ideological foe that “VMI survived an attack by Union forces during the Civil War and continues to produce honorably leaders for Virginia and America.
Chief among VMI’s unique traits, unable to be replicated through an education at V WIL or any of the federal military academies, is its especially strong network of alumni connections. But the connections deemed most valuable to cadets past, present, and future are those that benefit them as individuals within a network of fellow, supportive institute men who help advance one another’s fortunes professionally, socially, and politically. As former state senator Emilie R. ” The National Organization of Women (NOW), in a January 1996 press release, quoted a judge from the Faulkner v.
Claunch, Kendra L. Russell, Megan K. Smith, Tennille Chisholm, Angela L. Winters, and Rachel Love. Courtesy Richmond Times-Dispatch. of visitors passed a resolution on May 12, 2001, stating the institute’s “family policy” would from then on bar cadets not only from marrying (already formally banned but was tolerated under the table) but also from becoming parents. Future pregnant students (and, in theory, male cadets who were expectant fathers) would have no option but to leave the institute for violating the policy.