If It Were Not For The South, America Would Be Another Canada Or (Horror!) France.

ComtedeMaistre

[ComtedeMaistre]

I had yet another look at the 2000 electoral map, and I was struck by the fact that Bush carried every single state in the South, all by substantial margins. It made me wonder of how American conservatism would be, if the South had succeeded in its tragic War of Independence in the 1860s.

Sure, there are many bastions of solid traditional American conservatism outside the South. The people of the American West, in states like Utah, Montana, Alaska, Colorado, Nebraska and Idaho, are probably the most freedom loving people in the entire country. They are the strongest defenders of the second ammendment right to bear arms, largely because of their outdoors culture of hunting, ranching, and fishing. They are also the strongest defenders of free speech, self-reliance, property rights and are fierce individualists. They hate taxes with such an intensity, it is scary.

Many midwestern regions, are also solidly conservative. The small towns in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan, represent the true heart of middle America. And there a few islands of conservatism in the East, in areas such as New Hampshire and Upstate New York, surrounded by a sea of liberalism.

But if you remove the South from the map, do you think that Northern Bastions of conservatism can hold out against the liberal tidal wave? Gore would have carried the 2000 election in a massive landslide, if it were not for the South.

[Ohioan]

Instead of making bald faced assertions, and ex cathedra pronouncements, why don't we try to bring a semblance of reason into this discussion by your telling me just what in Booker T. Washington's address at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition in 1895, you disagree with.

You sound like you are unable to actually address the real issues. Prove me wrong!

The idea that everyone living within the Continental United States is part of one monolithic society, is not the concept that the Founding Fathers brought to the American Union. Unless you can give some credible reason for adopting the Communist or Nazi idea of a monolithic American Society, you are going to have to justify your attack on Southern Society with a better argument than that you simply do not like it--i.e., declare it to be wrong, etc.. You also, even if you have a rational argument, will have to get past the idea that no one appointed you as the ultimate judge or arbiter of how other Americans address the various problems of social interaction, in their respective communities.

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[Ohioan]

Apparently Mr. Classicaliberalconservative is electing not to have the rational discussion that I suggested.

For others, who want to understand the origins and destructive nature of the racial confrontation of the 20th Century, see Creating Hate In America Today.