Why is history and memory sometimes a deep family matter, to Southerners?

为什么对于南方人来说,历史,有时是和记忆紧密联系在一起的

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But the idea of Southern stereotypes is very, very old.

但是我们对于南方的成见由来已久

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I said earlier that this is an old idea, I mean it goes back into the eighteenth you can find all kinds of examples of these stereotypical conceptions of the South in French, British visitors.

我之前说过这是一个陈旧的观点,这是十八世纪的观点,你能找到各种各样的例子,说明在法国,英国的游客心中,存在对于南方的偏见

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

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