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Summary Of I Am A Southerner By George Wallace

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“Governor, I’ve never been south of South Milwaukee, but I am a Southerner!” George Wallace responds with “Being a southerner is no longer geographic. It’s a philosophy and an attitude.” The philosophy and attitudes Wallace is referring to deals with changes in society brought on by the government. The government is trying to enforce laws based on what they feel is right rather than allowing the people to make their own decisions. The government influence of religion and conformity has spread throughout the United States in turn making people live in the craziness. Wallace is speaking against the government controlling individual lives and believes they should be able to have their own beliefs without government interference. The stalwarts
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Gov. Wallace referred back to the constitution by stating that the Congress was in charge of making laws, and that no one else had any type of right to force anything onto the states without the approval of Congress, which was not given. He also spoke of how though there are governments and government systems, the power is in the hands of the people and that the States were given a ton of other powers that were to be handled by only the States and no one else. He referred to the tenth amendment of the Constitution which proved exactly

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Wallace shows his literary intellect in his use of the rhetorical device. He describes the nod to the opposition when he details the way we are not supposed to think by calling it our “default setting”. He starts off by saying that he would have tendencies to feel like he was the center of the world, but excuses that behavior by saying “It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth” (. The author explains the consequences of not controlling your default setting by continuing his story about the trip to the grocery store. Wallace declares “ Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don 't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I 'm

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He emphasizes that he, infact, struggles with centering his own world around himself and not being considerate of the situations of the people around him through his statements such as, “if you're like me, some days you won't be able to do it, or you just flat out won't want to.” This expresses Wallace’s attempt to, once again, ensure his audience feels comfortable and not like he is “preaching to them.” This is an example of Wallace’s many ethical appeals in an attempt to validate his argument by creating comfortableness and relatableness.

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