[lapsus calami]

 

 

You should find and dig around in WW2-era newspaper archives. It's eye opening. If online resources are scarce, then there's microfiche and physical copies themselves. What I found, in "flyover country" it was "get those dirty Japs and Nazis!", while on the west and east coasts, particularly the cities, there was carping about bringing our boys home and "Roosevelt's war". Kinda funny how much things change, they stay the same don't they.

 

 

[dfwgator]

If we only had something like FR in 1939/40, the flame wars would have been legendary. Pretty much every post would be somebody being accused of being a “Hitler lover” or a “Stalin lover”, or worst of all, “An FDR Lover”.

[Red6]

I wonder, is it because on the West and East coast you have a greater number of first gen immigrants with values similar to where they came from, or loyalties to where they came from?

Or is it the greater degree of urbanization and influence this has?

Cities make people weird: crowding, public/community property, anonymity, the loss of an identity and feeling of being unique, social/natural disconnects (folks don’t even know where their food comes from), noise/light pollution (cities don’t sleep). It is in cities where people run metal through their nose and dye their hair blue in order to feel unique - or where “science” tells us XX and XY isn’t a girl or a boy. I tend to think it’s the urbanization because you see this everywhere, even in Europe, Asia, etc.