>yankee born, irish catholic by blood
>wealthy lawyers son, grew up in a large house and went to an upstanding high school
>degree in liberal arts at a good college
>urbanite who never experienced violence in his life
>chose to larp as a poor southern hillbilly
Why?
Faulkner, for comparison, was off 100% dixie colonial anglo stock, with family that had fought in the civil war and revolutionary wars and had been members of the klan.

>>24543663 (OP)
it just goes to show, you don't need to write what you know

>>24543663 (OP)
>was off 100% dixie colonial anglo stock
He was partially Irish as well. You can tell because he has epicanthic folds which are common among Irishmen.

>>24543663 (OP)
Because the northeastern United States has no culture. You need to look to the south to find anything interesting enough to write about.

>>24543688
New York City is full of culture.

>>24543693
New York City's culture was killed by mass immigration before your grandfather was born. Now it has no culture of its own, only an ever-shifting flux of rat-infested ethnic cliques and a few glass towers full of aloof rich kids.

weren't the slave enforcers predominantly irish? how they turned into protestants i don't know, america is a funny country, the german immigrants abandoned their language and kept the religion while the irish abandoned their faith and became like their colonizers back home, after all the bloodshed about religion

>>24543708
They have different cultures, you just don't like them because you're a /pol/ fag.

>>24543715
>weren't the slave enforcers predominantly irish?
????
The south was almost completely free of immigration for virtually all of its history
Colonial southerners were of british stock

>>24543663 (OP)
For Art. Which through his efforts he realised to its fullest extent.

>>24543663 (OP)
I like him better for being able to read his work and I guess Suttree in particular as being about the search for meaning after the end of culture.

>>24543716
Most /pol/tards are okay with New York getting overrun by micks and dagos because they're "le white." But as you said, they have their own different alien cultures, none of which have anything to do with the northeastern United States.

>>24543732
So you're an anglo supremacist, I imagine? That's honestly more respectable than what /pol/ white mongrels believe. It makes sense, at least.

>>24543746
In the grand scheme of things it's not really accurate to say that any human being is meaningfully superior to any other. I'm just observing that the lack of any permanent culture in the northeast probably has something to do with why McCarthy wrote about the south and the west.

>>24543683
you can suspect he's irish because his name is CORMAC MCCARTHY

>>24543753
I guess you might be right. I accept I was wrong. Melville was from new york and he preferred to write about whales instead.

>>24543663 (OP)
He grew up in Knoxville. His family moved there when he was a kid.

>>24543759
?

>>24543724
i'm talking about enforcers not owners, every plantation had an enforcer who was probably irish, these were the people who became wild west bandits and cowboys after the civil war

Oh, I'm a good old Rebel soldier, now that's just what I am;
For this "Fair Land of Freedom" I do not give a damn!
I'm glad I fit against it, I only wish we'd won,
And I don't want no pardon for anything I done.

I hates the Constitution, this "Great Republic," too!
I hates the Freedman's Bureau and uniforms of blue!
I hates the nasty eagle with all its brags and fuss,
And the lying, thieving Yankees, I hates 'em wuss and wuss!

I followed old Marse Robert for four years, near about,
Got wounded in three places, and starved at Point Lookout.
I cotched the "roomatism" a'campin' in the snow,
But I killed a chance o' Yankees, and I'd like to kill some mo'!

Three hundred thousand Yankees is stiff in Southern dust!
We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot,
But I wish we'd got three million instead of what we got!

I can't take up my musket and fight 'em now no more,
But I ain't a'gonna love 'em, now that's for sartain sure!
I do not want no pardon for what I was and am,
And I won't be reconstructed, and I do not care a damn!

>>24543732
>>24543746
America was over the moment they decided to give citizenship to non-Anglos. As soon as the first micks, first krauts, first wops were allowed in it was game over. Then later groups just gave it the finishing blow.

>>24543759
Ironic how this board has some of the worst reading comprehension i've ever seen on this site

>>24543663 (OP)
mccarthy was only born in rhode island, he grew up in tennessee

Ye

>>24543663 (OP)
>Faulkner, for comparison, was off 100% dixie colonial anglo stock
Of course, his ultimate limitation was that he was too enamored with the myth of the noble south. Which is why McCarthy eventually eclipsed him with BM. You know this, which is why you’re obsessing over the authors background instead of the books themselves. Go back to the drawing board, retard.

>>24544931
He was a yankee who had nothing in common with the south and grew up in a gated surburb
>>24545258
>the noble south was le myth
jew detected

>>24545735
>>24545258
>too enamored with the myth of the noble south.
If there one thing he never presented the south as, it would be noble.

>>24543663 (OP)
He actually was a poor southern hillbilly at one point in his life. He became dirt poor because he refused to do anything for work other than write books, which were not yet successful. Also, he did those poor southern hillbillies better justice than any other writer in history.

>>24543663 (OP)
all americans are yanks

>>24543678
But it shows to those that can discern the sincere from the false