Williams Gilmore Simms was canceled on a tour into the Yankee North. Why? Because he didn't agree with Uncle Tom's Cabin.
From William Gilmore Simms's "Unfinished Civil War: Consequences for a Southern Man,"
William Gilmore Simms was one of antebellum America’s foremost authors. Edgar Allen Poe, a contemporary of Simms, considered him the best novelist in the country. He was certainly one of the most prolific. Besides his novels, Simms averaged a book review and a poem per week for forty-five years. From time to time he also edited various newspapers and popular magazines. A native of Charleston, Simms’s novels, stories, and verse sold well on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line. Simms’s literary and financial success propelled him into South Carolina’s elite. . . .
In the lead essay of the collection, David Moltke-Hansen examines the impact of the war on Simms: the deaths of his wife and four of his children, the burning of his home and library, and the loss of much of his influence and income. Before the war, Simms believed the South’s martial success against Indians, French, Spanish, and British (twice), boded well for its chances against the North. But the Civil War proved vastly larger than the Revolution, and the Confederacy—Simms’s logic notwithstanding—was overwhelmed. After the war, his circumstances much reduced, Simms was compelled to go cap in hand to Northern friends to sell his work. As cancer gradually claimed him, Simms continued to support his household with his pen. Though weakened, he was not defeated.
New Englanders have always been willing to cancel things they don't like, Christmas for example, in 1659. They canceled anything fun. In England itself, they canceled dancing and newspapers and music, and all kinds of stuff. If you start promoting New England Republicans or New England reformers, and this is for conservatives who do it all the time, you're actually conceding the field to the modern woke authoritarians because that's what they are. This is where it comes from. That's the root of it all. And of course in America, Americans for years have understood this.
Oliver Anthony himself has said that one of the greatest influences is Hank Williams, Jr. And if you're not familiar with Hank Williams, Jr.'s catalog of music, . . . In fact, Rolling Stones in their little hit piece
It came out August 11th, almost immediately after the song was released, and the title is "Right-Wing Influencers Just Found Their Favorite Country Song," by Joseph Hudak. In "Rich Men North of Richmond," a singing farmer of Virginia blasts high taxes and obese people on welfare and even appears to allude to Jeffrey Epstein you see this is all they get. They're not getting the critique of what Oliver Anthony is really talking about this is a cultural tune. What they're afraid of, what they really fear the most, is the fact that Southern Culture would be really popular if they didn't try to beat it down all the time. It was really popular in the '70s, and they can't stand it they can't stand that time. The song was released on August 11th, and the left had to go on the offensive immediately on August 11th.
