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Front Porch In “From Smiles to Miles: Delta Air Lines Flight Attendants and Southern Hospitality,” Drew Whitelegg looks inside the world of Delta Air stewardesses and at how they became “Scarletts in the sky.” From Delta Digest, May 1965, courtesy of Delta Air Lines. 1 I spoke once at a dinner meeting of the Military Order of Stars and Bars (mosb ), a Confederate heritage society that gathers every once in a while at a nearby Steak ’n’ Ale restaurant. Most of the time, neo-Confederates and I leave each other pretty much alone, but they had issued the invitation as something of a polite challenge, after some unguarded remarks I had dropped in public about reenac- tors. I was feeling pretty tense, since my topic was “Liberty, Slavery, and the Com- ing of the Civil War,” and I didn’t think the Military Order would like it very much. But still, I buckled on my best bravado, figuring that if my paleo-Confed- erate ancestors had the courage to stare down Yankee gun barrels, I could do the same with their modern-day admirers. Well, everything went fine, as I should have known it would. The members and I did have a lot of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Front Porch

Watson, Harry L.
Southern Cultures , Volume 11 (4) – Nov 23, 2005
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In “From Smiles to Miles: Delta Air Lines Flight Attendants and Southern Hospitality,” Drew Whitelegg looks inside the world of Delta Air stewardesses and at how they became “Scarletts in the sky.” From Delta Digest, May 1965, courtesy of Delta Air Lines. 1 I spoke once at a dinner meeting of the Military Order of Stars and Bars (mosb ), a Confederate heritage society that gathers every once in a while at a nearby Steak ’n’ Ale restaurant. Most of the time, neo-Confederates and I leave each other pretty much alone, but they had issued the invitation as something of a polite challenge, after some unguarded remarks I had dropped in public about reenac- tors. I was feeling pretty tense, since my topic was “Liberty, Slavery, and the Com- ing of the Civil War,” and I didn’t think the Military Order would like it very much. But still, I buckled on my best bravado, figuring that if my paleo-Confed- erate ancestors had the courage to stare down Yankee gun barrels, I could do the same with their modern-day admirers. Well, everything went fine, as I should have known it would. The members and I did have a lot of

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Published: Nov 23, 2005

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