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The Yankee Problem in America
LewRockwell.com ^
| April 24, 2003
| Clyde Wilson
Posted on 04/25/2003 7:55:09 AM PDT by Aurelius
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:55:09 AM PDT
by
Aurelius
To: Aurelius
I think that the "Yankee == Evil" view is about as accurate as the "RedNeck == Stupid Racist" view.
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posted on
04/25/2003 7:59:13 AM PDT
by
dark_lord
To: Aurelius
It all comes from 17th-century radical Protestantism. If you believe in justification by faith alone, it's not a very big step to antinomianism. The socialist vegetarian radical of today is only an updated version of a Fifth Monarchy Man.
To: Aurelius
I loved watching the ANGELS kick the CRAP out of the YANKEES last baseball season.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:04:23 AM PDT
by
Mister Baredog
((They wanted to kill 50,000 of us on 9/11, we will never forget!))
To: dark_lord
The American league has a Yankee problem also.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:05:28 AM PDT
by
poet
To: dark_lord
Thank you. I think this author needs to get into this century. I got about halfway down the page before I couldn't read this rant anymore.
To: Aurelius
This person does not know what a Yankee is.
My stepfather is a Yankee: He lives in MA. He is a craftsman, a cabinet maker who works alone from his own shop. He can count on one hand his trips to Boston. He minds his business, does his work, and has no pretense of being a member of an elite Yankee class.
I think "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, an author suspiciously absent form this essay, expresses the true Yankee mentality.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:24:42 AM PDT
by
Gefreiter
To: Aurelius
"form" = "from"
Damned Yankee keyboard
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:25:51 AM PDT
by
Gefreiter
To: proxy_user
"It all comes from 17th-century radical Protestantism."
Yes, the American Totalitarian strain has its origins in the militant perfectionism of certain elements of Cromwell's Army.
OTOH, the relentless disestablishmentarianism of these same Protestants led to the 1689 Bill of Right(which includes the right to bear arms), a contractual monarchy, and eventually, the political principles of the American Revolution. That seems to me to be a good thing.
An interesting read, even if tainted by ax-grinding 'sectionalism'. ;^)
To: Gefreiter
....a voice of reason. Call me a Yankee, It's a compliment.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:30:54 AM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: Aurelius
Down with the Confederates! Preserve the Union!
/HEAVY SARCASM (from a longtime Illinois Yankee)
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:31:35 AM PDT
by
BureaucratusMaximus
(if we're not going to act like a constitutional republic...lets be the best empire we can be...)
To: Aurelius
Hearing a Northeastern accent roils up a deep hostility within the breast of any Southern man. Southern women, too, but they're often too nice to let them know it. Midwesterners, Yankees as well, don't rouse that same sort of irrational hatred. I haven't figured that one out, yet.
To: Aurelius
Listening to neo-confederates bitch about a war confederates started and lost is just like listening to Democrats bitch about the recounts in the 2000 election they initiated and lost - a whole lot of whine, cheese, and sour grapes with a heavy dose of revisionism.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:44:05 AM PDT
by
Monitor
To: dark_lord
I've been called "Yankee" by better
Commies, Nazi, Imperial Japan, the French, etc. What this guy never saw an old war movie?
"You die(running/imperialist)Yankee dog" is a classic cliché....
I'm a proud unrepentant Yankee
To: dighton; Poohbah; hchutch; Catspaw; wimpycat
More heartwarming love and joy from the pages of Lew Rockwell.
To: Aurelius
Talk about optimistic.
Apparently this writer isn't aware of the poor history knowledge Americans possess.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
More heartwarming love and joy from the pages of Lew Rockwell.Clyde Wilson gets around, from LewRockwell to Pravda.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:57:06 AM PDT
by
dighton
(Amen-Corner Hatchet Team, Nasty Little Cliqueâ„¢)
To: Chancellor Palpatine
It's a good thing for Lew Rockwell that stupidity and foolishness aren't physically painful.
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posted on
04/25/2003 8:58:16 AM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: Aurelius
An interesting read. Mr. Rockwell seems to forget the latter part of the 20th century. While Kennedy was a "Yankee", President Johnson was a southerner...So is Jimmy Carter, (gag) Bill Clinton and Dick Gephardt.
When I think of Yankee, I think largely of New England snobs. The folks from the Southern region of our country often blur the Yankee label by indicating anyone born above their respective northern state boundry (or the Yellow river if your in Texas).
In summary, I think Rockwell is nailing the Yankee mindset and its cultural influence on these great States. Yet, arrogance and greater-than-thou-ism is a human trait that can be easily acquired by any culture.
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posted on
04/25/2003 9:01:27 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(When the tree of Liberty is washed, may it be only with the blood of tyrants!)
To: Aurelius
Rockwell is such a loser
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