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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: surprised when he answered, for generally all questions were
answered by "I reckon that's my bizness."
"I hates them, like all mountain folks hates them. We never liked
them and we never owned none. It was them niggers that started the
war. I hates them for that, too."
"But you fought in the war."
"I reckon that's a man's privilege. I hates Yankees too, more'n I
hates niggers. Most as much as I hates talkative women."
It was such outspoken rudeness as this that threw Scarlett into
silent furies and made her long to be rid of him. But how could
she do without him? In what other way could she obtain such
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