In the earliest days of the Agrarian movement, Ransom, Tate, and Davidson, each in his own way, envisioned the South as a redemptive community on a divine mission within the vast drama of history. For them, being Southern constituted a spiritual identity. They recognized Prometheus, Faust, and Satan as the summary figures of modernity and offered the image of the southern patriarch - pious, unselfconscious, conservative, even reactionary - as a moral alternative. The old Southern gentleman yielded to his tradition and to his God.
-Mark Malvasi
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