Has anyone read this book?

He makes the case that modern black culture isn't unique to blacks. Rather, it can be traced back to the antebellum South, with what is known as cracker culture.
Prior to the civil war, the word cracker referred to any southerner of any skin color. Crackers were known for aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity,
improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship, reckless searches for excitement, lively music and dance, and a style of religious oratory marked by strident rhetoric, unbridled emotions, and flamboyant imagery.
>Sound familiar?

Centuries before “black pride” became a fashionable phrase, there was cracker pride—and it
was very much the same kind of pride. It was not pride in any particular achievement or set of
behavioral standards or moral principles adhered to. It was instead a touchiness about anything
that might be even remotely construed as a personal slight, much less an insult, combined with
a willingness to erupt into violence over it. New Englanders were baffled about this kind of
pride among crackers. Observing such people, the Yankees “could not understand what they
had to feel proud about.”

why were they called crackers though

I thought niggies called whities crackers because the food product is white

Any lurkers?

Crackers because they cracked their whips.

you just listen to the new JRE podcast or some shit?

Thomas Sowells explanation for black dysfunction is just as bad as a liberals. He blames White people. Conservatives like him because he doesn't blame current White racism but past White racism. Also he doesn't like welfare.

The idea that Blacks are the way they are because of culture has been debunked by twin studies and also IQ and standardized testing showing that Blacks from the highest income bracket test either the same or lower than Whites from the lowest income bracket.

Don't buy into the based black meme.

He blames modern liberals. He's saying they're acting like white trash (except with melanin), and liberals are making excuses for them because they all have the same victim complex.

It actually comes from the middle English word cnak or crak, which means "loud, boisterous bragging"

Cracker culture comes from the Northern Britons who never really fit in with either England or Scotland. So they move to the southern colonies and brought their lifestyle with them.
And where did black people live for most of US history? In the south

>blames white people
How the hell does he blame white people, he only gives the reason why they behave like that and is against that kind of culture.
He just says that the government shouldn't enable this kind of behavior.

I don't know what that is, but I literally posted the book I'm getting this stuff from.

Fuck off. IQ correlates with many good human properties like conscientiousness and gratification delay, but good cultural aspects correlated with these two too. Christians are more likely to be conscientious, and married men who stay with their families have much higher gratification delay scores.

It is a combination of genes and environment, like basically everything in life. While I'm not advocating mass migration in any way, I do like it very much when the non-whites are culturally, morally, and economically like white people.

How come white rednecks don't act as violently as the supposed Black ones. He also doesn't explain, to my knowledge, why other so called "herder cultures" are not as violent as blacks, who are supposedly only more violent because of said "herder culture.

Those rednecks and other herder cultures aren't praised by liberals like the blacks are. Nobody is making excuses for white rednecks, but everyone with a victim complex will jump over backwards at even the mere notion of slight.

lol, yes, new yorkers are the height of human civilization


go away and take your euphoria porn with you

They used to be very violent. The Scots-Irish who settled the Appalachians were murdering eachother en masse in the Isles. As a result of their extremely aggressive nature and culture they were shipped of to the colonies. While they are now much more pacified than American blacks, the Dixies are still more aggressive and honorbound than Northerners.
There have been some articles about how Dixies are more easily angered than Yankees, and this apparently has to do with their culture. Cant find the research now though, but you better believe me

I was listening to it on tape a couple years back and thought it was really interesting. I think he even traces back the "cracker culture" to some area of northern england where the vast majority of the southern settlers came from. Apparently even back in their homeland they were backwards, and just brought their culture with them to the south. idk how true that is but it's interesting

Lol I don't disagree, I think there is definitely some truth to that theory. However it does not explain the eleveted levels of violence in black communities around the world not infuenced by herder cultures

I have it. It's pretty good. I like Sowell.

this made me think of the whole Hatfield-McCoy feud. I don't remember hearing any stories like that in the North East

So how do you explain the white redneck mortality rate?

orignally it came from the crack of a whip

yes its true, huck finn is based on this as well, most blacks were often more moral and upright than their poor white counterparts, largely due to their reliance on church community and the necissity of having a strong family unit,

the rate of out of wedlock births were extremely low in the black community, if you look at black entertainers in the early 1900's they were very polished, well educated, often more likely to dress up on every day occassion in hopes to break stereotypes and avoid problems.

But niggers left alone and given equal rights soon reverted them to their natural state. All of that is gone and will most likely never return.

Cracker must not have been too much of an insult since Atlanta had two minor league baseball teams, the Crackers and the Black Crackers, using the name.

That's a myth