Rich Hephner

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I knew that Virginia was so far and away the best, but a Virginian would never say that. Boasting? That was for Texans. One writer described the Virginia state of mind five years before I was born as a “regal humility” or a mystique “rooted in instincts of graciousness, chivalry, generosity and a benevolent aristocratic idealism, all attributes of the plantation society.”4 The great Mississippi writer William Faulkner, who knew a thing or two about southern identity, spent a year as a writer in residence at the University of Virginia in 1957. He returned to Charlottesville often to visit his ...more
Rich Hephner
As a Charlottesville resident, I love this quote. Sums is up well, but it's definitely changing.
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
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