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Under the term Agrarians is included, in common usage, all that class of men who exhibit a desire to remove social ills by a resort to means which are considered irregular and dangerous by the great majority of mankind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition by Twelve Southerners: The legendary group manifesto from the Agrarians, a movement that organized at Vanderbilt in the '20s and' 30s.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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A seventh theme of the New Agrarians was the importance of local attachment and regional identity.
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I met several prominent Agrarians/Fugitives over the years and have made a point to discuss this with them.
Is That Legal?: Confederate "Leadership": When Was Enough Enough? 2006
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The Southern Agrarians, for example, affirmed Goethe's maxim, "that everything that frees man's soul, but does not give him command over himself, is evil."
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Agar had special praise for the regional cities of Nashville (home of the Southern Agrarians) and Indianapolis (then home to novelist Booth Tarkington).
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Southern Agrarians, the most accurate doom-sayers in recent intellectual history, are the lovable losers of the Old Right.
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Best known are The Southern Agrarians, a group of twelve authors centered at Vanderbilt University during the late 1920's and 1930's and architects of the book, I'll Take My Stand.
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Whereas Old Right libertarians have found a voice in modern paleolibertarian outlets like LRC, laissez-faire liberals have found a voice in the modern push for globalism and “free trade,” and pro-business, anti-union deregulators have significant influence in the highest levels of government, the Southern Agrarians have been left behind.
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The sixth New Agrarian theme, taught with special energy by the 'Southern--or Vanderbilt--Agrarians', was suspicion of the industrial mindset, where the true conservative would serve as watchdog over industrialism's mindless sprawl.
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