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- He spoke with a softness characteristic of southerners.
Trying to deconstruct a set of myths into which he himself was born, Cash did not always succeed in going beyond his own white, male perspective. When Cash writes about the importance for ‘every Southerner’ of the ‘boast, voiced or not,’ that he would ‘knock hell out of whoever dared to cross him,’ John Shelton Reed argues, ‘plainly, Cash did not mean “every Southerner” to include Southern blacks and Southern women. For a woman to reveal that attitude would have been unladylike; for a black to display it could have been fatal’.