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The Mind of the South
The Mind of the South by W.J. Cash
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Excerpt - from Front Matter: " ... "the hell-of-a-fellow complex," a designation of Southern pride in masculinity; and finally, the "Savage Ideal" and "Proto-Dorian Convention," brisk, ... "

From the Old South to the New: Essays on the Transitional South (Contributions in American History)
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Excerpt - on Page 179: " ... Bauman in "Race and Mastery: The Debate of 1903" reappraises Cash's concept of a monolithic "savage ideal" that repressed dissent in the South. ... "

Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South
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Excerpt - on Page 25: " ... a tragic proclivity for violence, and the "savage ideal" of hostility to criticism or innovation, what Cash presented as a deeply flawed mind was actually more ... "

Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity
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Excerpt - on Page 177: " ... hardened over more than a half-century of continuing resistance to northern influences of all sorts into what Cash called the "savage ideal," a rigid communal conformity of thought and rabid hostility to criticism or change that had effectively "paralyzed Southern culture at ... "

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