"Yet there is an electricity between white Southerners and Eastern Jews, for despite the most manifest disparities they have emerged from two similar cultures, buttressed by old traditions of anguish and the promise of justice. They sense this in each other; in the happiest of circumstances they exist to one another somewhat like parallel lines. They bemuse one another. For if the Jews are the carriers of culture, taking it with them wherever they go, from Warsaw to Scarsdale, the Southerners themselves are the oldest of the Americans, adventurers, dreamers of dreams, high-tempered and stubborn, playful even in the direst times, the classic founders of states and indeed of our nation."
August 17, 1999
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