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In a sharp philippic published in 1920, Mencken compares the barren South with the Sahara, arguing that not a single standing historian, scientist, sociologist or theologian was born in this desert. “In this Rabelaisian paradise of mediocrity,” he writes, “you will not find a single art gallery, not a single orchestra capable of performing all nine Beethoven symphonies, not a single opera house and not a single drama theater where you could watch a play worthy of this title ". Behind this sharp criticism lies nostalgia for the blessed era of plantations, which was replaced by the dictatorship of the operetta business leaders, and regret for the “higher civilization”, replaced by the kingdom of the Ku Klux Klan and the “white scum”.