Conclusion Dialectical Rhetoric as the New Rhetoric of Southern Identity

A strong case may be made that if any one person embodied the changing order of the South in the twentieth century, it was Strom Thurmond. As Delaware senator Joseph Biden noted in his July 2003 eulogy, “Strom Thurmond was the only man I knew who in a literal sense lived in three distinct and separa...

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Published in	Contemporary Southern Identity p. 154
Main Author	Watts, Rebecca B
Format	Book Chapter
Language	English
Published	United States University Press of Mississippi 01.12.2007
Subjects	African Americans American history American minorities American studies Anthropology Armed conflict Behavioral sciences Civil wars Communications Dialectic Discourse Ethnic groups Ethnography Ethnology History of the Americas Human societies Media studies Military science North American history Political communication Political debate Political movements Political organizations Political parties Political processes Political rhetoric Political science Political sociology Politics Public life Rhetoric Rhetorical argument Secessionism Separatism Social life Social sciences Sociology United States history War War theaters
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Summary:	A strong case may be made that if any one person embodied the changing order of the South in the twentieth century, it was Strom Thurmond. As Delaware senator Joseph Biden noted in his July 2003 eulogy, “Strom Thurmond was the only man I knew who in a literal sense lived in three distinct and separate periods of American history…. Born into an era of essentially unchallenged and unexamined mores of the South, reaching his full maturity in an era of fully challenged and critically examined bankrupt mores of his beloved South, and living out his final three decades in
ISBN:	1934110094 9781934110096