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In Reply to: I think it's more than that posted by andy evans on September 21, 2014 at 12:57:38:
I think that the concept of "the simple guy" came mostly from the Northern Yankees who were influenced by a mixture of Puritanism and Jeffersonian Humanism. It spread westward from the north as the nation grew...One might be tempted to think that the concept of the "simple guy" came from the southern farming states rather than the northern manufacturing states, but his roots do not go back as far in the south. The Forrest Gump types abound down there today, but it must be remembered that this is a huge reversal for the southern states. The 18th and early 19th century southern landowners had enthusiastically reverted to the aristocratic model of old England and Europe, eschewing the puritan model and the even more modern Jeffersonian model (small family-owned "working man" farms, etc...). These southern landowners wanted to rule idly as an aristocrat might do, over vast tracts of land. They wanted to be the entitled "gentleman farmers", outsourcing as much of the manual labor as possible to slaves or virtual slaves rather than to relatives or family members. It wasn't until the south was beaten down in the civil war that the bluebloods, whose societal structure was built upon aristocratic ideals such as provenance, ancestry, "divine rights", etc.., were forced to become more like the Yankee "working man" of the north.
I contend that the concept of "the simple, working man" in America has it's roots in Calvinist Puritanism. So, believe it or not, "the simple guy" has it's roots in England and Europe.
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- RE: I think it's more than that - genungo 14:10:44 09/21/14 (4)
- Calvin didn't start predestination IIRC it was St Augustin - Timbo in Oz 14:54:57 09/22/14 (1)
- RE: Calvin didn't start predestination IIRC it was St Augustin - genungo 15:34:52 09/22/14 (0)
- Been researching... - andy evans 14:58:36 09/21/14 (1)
- Interestingly... - genungo 20:20:07 09/21/14 (0)
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