Talk:Grady McWhiney

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Weak article[edit]

This is a weak bio because it seems to reflect bias against McWhiney with unreferenced negative assertions about his work. I'm only going to attempt to improve the format for now and leave the referencing to others, but may tone down or eliminate the most gratuitous ones. If this strikes anyone as "weasel wording" it will be an attempt at bettering what is there, at least. Rlquall 19:00, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

agree weak - for ignores his racism as his fellow country club attendees could attest about his words n private - as if they would disclose — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.191.14 (talk) 16:31, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The beginning paragraph sounds like an ad campaign[edit]

"These are words easily applied to one of the South's most prominent scholars, Grady McWhiney. For over three decades his writings have been discussed and debated but never disregarded." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vanguard587 (talk • contribs) 23:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

I moved the quotation to the end in order to reduce that problem. -Will Beback · † · 00:36, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think this guy is not aware that many Southerns were from England, Germany, and Jewish as well. (Parkers, Bedsoles, the battle flag is the Jewish Saltire cross, and not the St. Andrews cross. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.33.202.236 (talk) 00:43, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah also the largest pre-revolution group to populate the American south was in fact English indentured servants, not Celts of any variety. That's why his work is considered psuedo-history by the overwhelming majority of legitimate academia. Thesouthernhistorian45 (talk) 06:27, 12 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Celtic Thesis[edit]

McWhiney did not originate the Celtic Thesis; it is one of several theses in W. J. Cash: The Mind of the South (1941), and Cash does not claim to be original. (He is using it to debunk the Cavalier Thesis, then popular.) I have no real doubt it was one of the bases of "One Southron can beat ten Yankees", vintage 1861. I have less doubt that McWhiney was not publishing when he was 13. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 17:48, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]