Heritage

heritage- The American Heritage Dictionary defines heritage as "Something that is passed down from preceding generations; a tradition." McPherson uses heritage in a different context in her article I'll Take My Stand in Dixie-Net: White Guys, the South, and Cyberspace as something hinting towards race. IN the article, she often mentions Southern heritage websites use as somethign relating to whiteness because these sites espouse the Lost Cause and the Civil War as something to be protected as a part of Southern heritage. She mentions their is a white connotation to this because it would onl benefit the whites in the South. On p. 125 she mentions one of the sites says protecting their heritage is protecting "YOUR" heritage. She interprets this as protecting whiteness instead of protecting actual Souther nheritage, which she tells is very diverse and rich.