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By Ben Jones
Rappahannock News Writer
If ever there was evidence needed of the cultural gap in America between the so called “elites” and us great unwashed oht here, I have it in the form of an e-mail from a friend in Los Angeles, a successful screenwriter. “Who was this Dale Earnhardt?” he asks.
Even though NASCAR has been the number one spectator sport in the United States for many years, it has yet to penetrate the consciousness of the wine and brie set. I once ran into a couple who made a big deal out of the fact that the only thing they allowed their children to watch on television was the “MacNeill-Lehrer Hour.” Now, I liked that show, too, buy hey, loosen up baby.
Who was this Dale Earnhardt? Well, with the exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, only one Southerner has ever received the posthumous acclaim, the outpouring of grief, the sense of common loss, and the sincere memorialization that has accompanied Earnhardt’s passing. That one Southerner was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, and it is not too much of a stretch to draw comparisons between the two.
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