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Summary Of As The Yankee Makes And Takes It By John Cusson

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[Note: This article has been inspired by United States “History: As the Yankee Makes and Takes It by John Cussons (1900). Most of the description of the Yankee is his.] Southerners have been told to put the past behind them and devote their energy to building a common country. This they have been doing since Lincoln’s War to Suppress Southern Independence. While Southerners have devoted themselves to building the country, the Puritan Yankee of New England and his descendants along the Great Lakes and West Coast and his philosophical kin, mostly European radical immigrants and their descendants (hereafter, call the Yankee), have devoted themselves to vilifying the South. To the Yankee, the South represents everything wrong with the country …show more content…

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