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# From My Readings
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3504/
- Published: 2006-01-02T16:45:40.000Z
- Updated: 2006-01-02T16:45:40.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
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On Rootedness

> The Southerner always thinks of himself as being from somewhere, as belonging to some spot of earth . . . He is a Virginian, or he is a Georgian in a sense that I have never encountered in the Middle West–though Indiana Hoosiers may offer a fair approximation. . . The pride of local attachment is a fact which has two sides; it is a vice and a virtue. It may lead to conceit, complacency, and ignorance of the world outside. It frequently does lead to an exaggerated estimate of the qualities and potentialities of the particular region or province. . . But on the other side, provincialism is a positive force . . . \[Provincialism\] is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence.

Richard Weaver, *The Southern Essays of Richard Weaver* (Liberty Press), pp. 224-225.