[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from August 5 (reply #11) .

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[BroJoeK]

"and be not rebarbarized by Brigham Young or Red Republicanism, it will be a strange place in 1958"

Red Republicans??
I've seen other such labels, i.e., radical Republicans or Black Republicans, but this is the first I've seen "Red Republicanism".

Has anyone seen it before, or know what it refers to exactly?
Hmmmmm…..

"Origin:
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Freeman's Journal.
From red + republican, originally after French républicain rouge."

So, OK, French radical republicans were called "reds" at the time, but surely our good correspondent does not mean to equate rural mild-mannered, even docile, US Republicans to them?

[colorado tanker]

Interesting that Our Diarist is speculating on the world of 1958, where the entire world is bound together with railroads, steamships and telegraph wires.

He's probably too much of a hard headed realist to spin fantasies in his mind about a world with commercial air travel, telephony and that newfangled television.

I do remember in the 1960's the TV networks were agog with showing us live TV transmitted by the first commercial communications satellite, Telstar. Live from ______ (London or such) by Telstar!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

[Continued from August 10 (reply #7).]

August 12. Hasket Derby has sailed for Europe in search of knowledge. I expect to take Miss Leavenworth to Barrington tomorrow.

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