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The South was indeed the Bible Belt, as H.L. Mencken labeled it.
In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .
Royko wasn't quite a Twain, or a Mencken, but his writing was distinctive and memorable and in its time the closest thing to lasting literature in a daily paper.
It would be difficult to compile such a work without ready access to Mencken, Wilde, Shaw, and others of their sort.
Mencken of the Clinton era--the president's symbiotic scourge.