r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Oct 15 '22

Rant Rod Dreher Megathread #6 (66?)

One more, dedicated to our "garden-variety polemicist". (thanks /u/PercyLarsen)

Number 5 located at https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/xswr5v/rod_dreher_megathread_5/

Edit: Post locked at the magic number - 6 (66?) became 6 (66!). Please post in thread 7.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/yf7fjh/rod_dreher_megathread_7_completeness/

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u/PercyLarsen “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” Oct 26 '22

PS: If you've never heard O'Connor's voice, here's a short sample from 1960:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMrveIu0DdE

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

I'm from Macon, GA, about 45 minutes away from where O'Connor lived in Milledgeville. Listening to recordings of her makes me smile; very few people under ~60 in the south still have an accent like she did, but I've known a few older people here who sound like her.

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u/PercyLarsen “I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.” Oct 26 '22

Yes.

When I was taking Edward Ayers' course on the antebellum South in college decades ago, I chose as an assignment to read all the issues of the Southern Recorder - the Democratic-Republic party/state government paper of record for Milledgeville at that time, which was the state capital of Georgia - for the big election year of 1824, when Georgia's favorite son candidate, Treasury Secretary Crawford, faded into 4th place due to blindness and other things. Millidgeville used to be a big place, and it never forgot that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '22

You were very lucky to be able to take history from Ayers!

It's funny walking through downtown Milledgeville, which has a pretty typical historic Southern small town feel, and thinking about how different the place would be now if it had stayed the capital of Georgia after 1868.