The Imaginative Conservative has posted an older essay by Clyde Wilson, where Wilson reflects on Russell Kirk's appreciation and affirmation of the Southern tradition.  Kirk's book on John Randolph of Roanoke (his master's thesis!) expressed great appreciation for the Virginian.  Similarly, Wilson notes that Kirk had read the agrarian Donald Davidson's The Attack on Leviathan with great appreciation (and Kirk subsequently made sure it was re-published).  And Kirk's appreciation for South Carolinian John C. Calhoun was profound (see here for an earller post on Kirk on Calhoun).  Wilson's essay is a good introduction to Kirk's appreciation of the Southern tradition.

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