[B Knotts]

You missed this:

The coming conflict is not so much racial as it is cultural, political and tribal.

I think he's wrong to predict a "conflict"...but I do think the Tea Party movement represents a reassertion of Traditional America, especially its cultural norms.

It has little to do with race or ethnicity. Remember that "white" Americans are made up of many different ethnicities, many of which were once not considered "white." What changed? It was the cultural assimilation of those groups into the traditional American culture.

I think culture and race are often conflated, wrongly. They are different things. Race is unimportant. Culture is very important.

[norraad]

..and a constitutional republic is even more important!

"Can't we all just have a Constitutional republic?"

[Texan Tory]

“...Americans are made up of many different ethnicities, many of which were once not considered “white.”...”

Which ethnicities were previously not considered to be ‘white,’ but now they are? I’m not saying that you’re wrong, I am just curious about this.