Supports critical reading of heritage and place narratives; compressed historical statements and equivalences require independent scholarship.
The section moves from local farming and bootlegging narratives into Thompson's self-critique of Lost Cause memory, landownership, and racial privilege.
Thompson links the Van Winkle farm image and Kentucky agrarian longing to land, family, illicit economies, race, class, and his own romantic assumptions, then warns that inherited myths require a fuller historical picture.
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Part III, Chapters 7–9
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