Posted on 11/10/2013 2:07:01 PM PST by Libloather
The people I know from northern Il. very much match the yankeedom political/sociological description as do the greater app. residents I know myself included. However, the violent death comment obviously comes from someone who has never walked the black neighborhoods of Chicago, Detroit or Cleveland.
South Florida is labeled “Part of the Spanish Caribbean”
The old Spanish Main.
Drove through Texas a few weeks back and ate at many family owned diners on the way.
Does a soul good to realize there are some really good people out there.
Texas is a special place.
Oklahoma is looking good!
Former NOLA Mayor Ray Naggin is their poster child.
In S.S, the teachers can still support the 2nd Amendment and Christian values w/o being drummed out. My county adopted putting armed LEOs in the schools as a measure against potential school massacres.
Did you read the article? He uses the map to bash conservatives and blame them for the violence in their respective regions for not embracing big government.
“Ol’ man rivah...”
No..no...no...summertime, and the living is easy... :-)
Camptown Ladies
Greater Appalachia probably works best for me and from what I see in South Central PA ... less Harrisburg. But I'd have to say there is a lot of overlap on the map and it has a lot to do with where your family originated and assimilated.
My father's side of the family were mostly Highland Scots and some English. I can trace one lineage to Jamestown, but the vast majority came from Scotland later in the 1600's and went up the Cape Fear river into North Carolina. A few were prisoners of the crown and were basically indentured servants. It was either that or go to prison back in Scotland. It was only during the great depression that my grandparents and father came to PA. The rest of the family remained in NC. My mother's side of the family immigrated from Finland in the early 1890's. They settled in northern MN.
So I have roots from Yankeedom (MN), Tidewater & The Deep South. The Yankeedom moniker doesn't work at all for my family in MN. They are Lutherans, not Puritans. They are dairy farmers that cleared their own land and carved out a living. The Tidewater description in the article is weak and it could apply to anything. I identify with the deep south from a state's rights perspective and I identify with Greater Appalachia since I value individual liberty and I am “intensely suspicious" of "Yankee social engineers.”
All of that said, I am only a first generation Pennsylvanian (Midlands, where "Government intrusion is unwelcome, and ethnic and ideological purity isn’t a priority.") I will go along with the government intrusion part, but ethnic and ideological purity are very important to me and I tend to tie the two together.
Conclusion: it is a neat exercise in think about what make you and people around you tick, but I would place Colin Woodward closer to an astrologer than reporter.
The cities and everyone else.
9th generation descendant of mostly Swiss-German immigrants settling in York and Lancaster counties in the 1740’s with just a small handful of Quaker and English from Ireland.
The ones who settled west of the Susquehanna quickly lost all ties to Philadelphia particularly when first the canal and then the railroad came north from Havre de Grace and Baltimore. A little bit of interchange with northern MD, from the counties now talking secession as “Western Maryland”.
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