lisa jones, she is going to write a piece in 1879 called "the backwoods of the north carolina." and let me give you a couple of excerpts. this is a good contrast to which we were previously reading on these other slides. first she will describe these mountaineers as being the lower class composed of poor, white trash. see the difference? they are no longer like good old honest abe. they are poor, white trash. let me give you another quote from "the backwoods of carolina." even the most decent parts of life were dispensed with. culture was replaced by a state of ignorance. so these the generous anglo-saxons --this is important, the degenerate anglo-saxons. she is arguing that these people are uncivilized. they are savage and in fact they are even more savage than who? native americans. the question now is why you see the rise of the second image? the more negative image of the mountaineers? the image that says these mountaineers are inherently predisposed to committing violence. that they are never going to become civilized or part of america? what i am going to argue is moonshin

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