Did Moses Part the Mississippi?
Nollson, John
"Did Moses Part the Mississippi?" housing benefits (valued at cost), the poverty count drops from 25 million to 18.2 million people—eight percent of the population. When Medicaid is included as well, the CBO count drops further to...
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...The survey, commissioned to determine the ethnic history of all occupations so as to assist in the distribution of federal aid, is a gold mine of sociological history...
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...It was a Pole who was the first to argue that things were more or less heliocentric...
...The topical intellectual debate—wheth- er modernism was invented by the Jews or vice versa—rages, and quite properly, in the pages of the better journals...
...Ain't got no black ones neither...
...Traces of this can be seen in the subsequent development of country music...
...We may now offer some tentative conclusions based on the exhaustive textual exegesis of what is familiarly called the Laredo School...
...And the pattern is repeated elsewhere, where the rejection of a wholly modernizing, existentially flavorful cultural context dissolves into a curious pattern that is seldom discernible, wherein the singular ability to perform country music becomes nothing but a metaphor for a larger kind of aesthetic transmigration...
...The evidence continues to mount, not least the impressive, though admittedly accidental, findings of the Grand Ethnographical Survey...
...Correspondingly, both papers had to "simulate" in some fashion the assignment of a portion of in-kind benefits to recipients.they were interviewed," noted the New York Times...
...John Rehne has examined the rosters of University of Oklahoma football teams since 1889, and they shed much light on the devilling question of modernity...
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...Professor Leben wishes to push the date back even further...
...Unfortunately, being poor nine years in a row is a rather strict test of hardship, one that most individuals are unlikely to pass...
...The demography of the sunbelt says as much...
...For it is now apparent to all fair-minded analysts that a Jewish astronomer, admittedly a Morisco, did indeed accompany Hernando de Soto on his epic explorations of what is now the Southeast...
...A temporary turn at a well-paying job may push them above the poverty line for a while, but they are not to be confused with Horatio Alger...
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...I posed this question to one of the nation's greatest drivers...
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...But 14.2 million—three-quarters of the average—were poor four years or more, i.e., at least half the time...
...As the famous folk song has it: 'Some say he was a Christian/Some say he was a Jew/I say he was a pass rushin' man/No different from me or you.' Notice how Rehne dodges the issues of reformism, assimilationism, nativism, and the inevitable reaction...
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...New programs are currently being considered by Congress in its debate over welfare reform...
...For if Leben is right in arguing for a wholly Yankee origin (though Jewish-inspired) for the Memphis sound, what can be said about Nashville...
...About 60 percent of the poor work at least sometime during the year...
...The Jewish Historical Society of Kansas, having unearthed, authenticated, translated, annotated, and adumbrated the definitive Kansas City Kabala—thereby establishing the presence of kabalistic inquiry in the Great Plains at least a generation prior to the earliest theorized date, hit an especially painful raw nerve...
...If, for example, one examines the Michigan data for 1967-1973, one finds an annual average poverty population (under the Census definition) of about 19 million people...
...Existing programs can be expected to keep pace with inflation (and hence with the poverty standard) but not much more...
...because of the widespread practice of clan-endogenous marriage in the stock-car belt, they are likely to remain that way...
...It is this controversial hypothesis which must now be tested...
...For if this could happen in Kansas City, why not elsewhere...
...The same can be said for Trotskyism, which was founded by a Jew but may or may not be modern...
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...The institute's study, based on a cohort of individuals followed over time, cast doubt on simple cultures of poverty in which being poor now means having been poor always...
...Only 3.2 million—one-fifth of this average—were poor in every year...
...But should one occur, it will have a more limited impact on the poverty population because that population itself has changed...
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...Similarly, it is unclear whether we will see any new expansion in government benefit programs...
...The most ambitious of these—President Carter's Program for Better Jobs and Income—would reduce the poverty population by as much as one-third, but it suffers from poor political prospects...
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...Despite a continuous reduction in pov- erty over the last 13 years, the outlook for these 13 million long-term poor (or the CBO's 18.2 million) is fair at best...
...We do know that by the dawn of the modern era, the Sephardic tradition was well-established in the Ozark foothills...
...But before the CBO numbers could sink in, they were implicitly challenged by other research which suggested that individual poverty was only a transitory experience...
...so today nearly two-thirds of the poverty population (by any definition) are in households headed by a woman, by someone who is aged, or by someone who is disabled—i.e., households that are less likely to participate in an economic recovery...
...It is exactly this tension between the first-generation urban settler as merchant and his son as cross-country skier which should have provided just the right amount of inter-generational dialectical tension to produce a great country singer, but none appeared...
...Not only are the man's views archetypically ethnomorphic, they are more than a little afithrotropic...
...Is this not precisely where we would expect to find the earliest expressions of modernism...
...John Nollson Did Moses Part the Mississippi...
...Martin's observation is not born of intolerance...
...How can any scholar address the origins of modernism without taking this into account...
...The New England ministers of the American Revolution answered these questions so wisely that their answers have special significance today...
...The substantial past reduction of poverty can • Fluctuations of this type were first explored systematically twenty years ago by Professor Milton Friedman in his theory of permanent income...
...Today, both may have run their course...
...When Medicaid is included as well, the CBO count drops further to 12.8 million, or six percent of the population...
...Nor is this all...
...It appears that even by using the best of numbers the poor will be with us for some time...
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...The press seized on the most dramatic findings: "Only one in five people considered poor in 1975 were poor in every one of the [previous eight] years The differences between the CBO's 12.8 million figure and Paglin's 6.4 million figure are still being explored...
...Professor Paglin, using after-tax cash, all food and housing programs, and Medicaid, arrives at a poverty count of 6.4 million people, or three percent of the population...
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...It is a strange fact: Almost all great stock-car drivers are named Yarborough...
...There remains, of course, the ambiguous case of the renowneddefensive tackle, Nathan 'Too Small' Seligman...
...Few observers expect the economy to enter a sustained 1960s-like expansion...
...Nor is this all...
...Weinstein, writing in his monumental tome Hebraic Chant and Hoedown Calls: An Inquiry Into Whether the Ten Lost Tribes May Have Migrated to Arkansas, admits as much...
...Martin was not the first cultural critic to point out, not merely the absence of a great country singer, but the even more conspicuous absence of a great stock-car driver ofJewish origin...
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...The number, about half of the Census estimate, represents one out of every 16 people in the country...
...While more than a few traces of Hebraic chant can be found in the tradi26 The American Spectator May 1978 tional hoedown calls," he says, "it is hard to generalize...
...If one discounts Medicaid (as I am inclined to do), the CBO report suggests that the poverty population is at least one-quarter less than the Census estimate but still a fairly large number, perhaps one out of every 13 or 14 people...
...Stock-car racing is surely a more modern development than baseball or string-quartet...
...Sure, we ain't got no Jewish drivers...
...For if the link between country music, modernism, and central Europe is tenuous at best, the opposite is far from established...
...Leben's provocative thesis cannot stand up to a single simple question: Why has there not been even one great Jewish country-and-western singer...
...4, April 1977) that modernism came to Tennessee in the form of three dentistswho deserted General Grant's army during the siege of Vicksburg...
...As the economy expanded, these were the first families to cross the poverty line...
...The proposals of Representative Al Ullman, Senators Henry Bellmon and Howard Baker, and others have better political prospects but would make a significantly smaller dent in the poverty problem...
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...In the early 1960s, almost two-thirds of the poor lived in households headed by an able-bodied, working-age male...
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...It should be noted that both studies worked from the CPS which contains incomplete information about the types and amounts of in-kind benefits received...
...Widely publicized work by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research portrayed the official poverty population as a kind of pool with people constantly flowing in and out...
...Even if we were to make a back-of-theenvelope calculation and apply the Michigan three-quarters ratio to the CBO numbers, we would still be left with about 13 million people who are poor now and will remain so for much of the near term...
Vol. 11 • May 1978 • No. 7
