Alan: Russell recalls a comment by engineer-lawyer friend ABC whose family has lived in America since the second wave of Jamestown settlers.
'The genius of you yankees - and I have always admired this - is that you learned early on to accomplish great things by getting everyone to work together. Here in the south we submitted ourselves to a Procrustean Bed of clannishness, and thus constrained by self-satisfied individualism, blinkered vision and local dispute we have been unable to mobilize our collective genius.'
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