Document Analysis

The two passages I have chosen to compare for my first document analysis are W.J. Cash’s essay “The Continuity of Southern History” and C. Vann Woodwards essay “The Discontinuity of Southern History”.
Both authors agree that summed up in one-word southerners are “extravagant”, although they give different illustrations of the same trait. Woodward seems much more passionate and seems to spend much of his time criticizing Cash and less creating his own theories and backing them up. Cash’s theories, or the way he presents them, does it in such a calm manner compared to Woodward. However, the two authors still get each of their views across to the reader.
W.J. Cash’s view in the essay “The Continuity of Southern History” is that “the extent of the change and of the break between the Old South that was and the South of our time has been vastly exaggerat...