Shah 1
Nicholas Shah
Hist 190-08
David Campmier
September 9, 2017
Secondary Source Analysis In McPherson’s analysis of the essay “Southern Exceptionalism”, McPherson is quick to explain the thesis of the essay. Starting in the third paragraph, it is stated "Many antebellum Americans certainly thought that North and South had evolved separate societies with institutions, interests, values, and ideologies so incompatible, so much in deadly conflict that they could no longer live together in the same nation." (McPherson, 41). Throughout the essay McPherson notably explains the differences between the north and south. Proving the idea of Southern exceptionalism, that the South was indeed unique. As far as reasoning for this argument, McPherson
