[WorkingClassFilth]

Self loathing.

These miscreants flee from the suffocating sameness of working America as soon as they get their sheepskins. Off to the big city where they can dip their wicks in a vast array of gutters. Fidlelity and monogomy are as foreign and distasteful to them as absolute values, patriotism and the idea that the best choices in life may not satisfy their internal craving for self-fufillment. The high point of the American continent is the heartland - the coasts tend to collect what shakes loose.

[Gritty]

The high point of the American continent is the heartland - the coasts tend to collect what shakes loose.

Although true to a large extent, I think the malady is more specific than this.

In his "Cross of Gold" speech (at the National Democrat Convention in 1896), William Jennings Bryan said:

... the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

In most rural areas of the coasts (excluding the big cities) you find the outnumbered and beleaguered conservatives. It is the paternalistic, elitist, libertine philosphies of the large cities which grow Liberals like toxic mold in a petri dish.

Peggy Noonan lives in New York. she would encounter the same Liberal bigotry in Chicago.

[anniegetyourgun]

I am fascinated by the anaylsis you both offered here. It's excellent. I must inject, however, the question of whether or not one might still come up with that 'toxic liberal thought' in one generation within a heartland fatherless family on welfare.

While there appears to be a preponderance of libs in big cities, I would submit that the same could be achieved in rural areas if one could shred the family and create government dependence. In fact, I think we're beginning to see some of that in suburban areas. The latter seems to be tipping liberal in many places as we see increased familial breakdown, coupled with urban liberals moving into the suburbs to 'get away from it all'.....

You're thoughts?