Barbara L. (Barbllm) reviewed Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession on + 241 more book reviews
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review I gave it four stars because it amused me in places. That being said, Thompson erects the largest straw men he can think of regarding the beliefs and values of Southern people and then spends the entire book tearing them to shreds. He commits several logical fallacies along the way, and doesn't do much to further his cause or his argument.
There are, of course, people who believe that religion should be involved in politics. Many live in the South. Newsflash, Mr. Thompson: I live in Pennsylvania, and there are people here who also believe that. To suggest, as Thompson does, that the entire North is somehow more intelligent and enlightened than the entire South of the United States is a gross overgeneralization. He and Anne Coulter should go for a beer together sometime.
review I gave it four stars because it amused me in places. That being said, Thompson erects the largest straw men he can think of regarding the beliefs and values of Southern people and then spends the entire book tearing them to shreds. He commits several logical fallacies along the way, and doesn't do much to further his cause or his argument.
There are, of course, people who believe that religion should be involved in politics. Many live in the South. Newsflash, Mr. Thompson: I live in Pennsylvania, and there are people here who also believe that. To suggest, as Thompson does, that the entire North is somehow more intelligent and enlightened than the entire South of the United States is a gross overgeneralization. He and Anne Coulter should go for a beer together sometime.
