How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
In the South there was one religion, as in England, one way of life. They even allowed the occasional Jew—like Longstreet's Major Moses, or Judah Benjamin, back in Richmond—but by and large they were all the same nationality, same religion, same customs. A little rougher, perhaps, but… my word. (3.1.81)
Fremantle continues to enthuse about the Southerners. We've got to point out that this dude loves him some conformity and sameness: he has no appreciation for societies more diverse than his own.
Quote #5
Heat and Spanish moss. Strange hot land of courtly manners and sudden violence, elegance and anger. A curious mixture: the white-columned houses high on the green hills, the shacks down in the dark valleys. Land of black and white, no grays. The South was a well-bred, well-mannered, highly educated man challenging you to a duel. (3.2.3)
Chamberlain finds the South kind of tough to understand. It's different—alien, even. He thinks the people there are very absolute about things, seeing everything in black and white—except, ironically, for the moral issue of slavery. There's an intensity and a pride in the Southern disposition that seem foreign and exotic to a Mainer.