Could the United States be headed for a national divorce?
‘There are effectively two Americas — and they are at war.’
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“Half (54 per cent) of self-described strong Republicans in America now think it is very or somewhat likely there will be a US civil war within the next decade.
“Four in ten (40 per cent) strong Democrats agree.
“Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene … has called for a ‘national divorce’.
“‘We need to separate by red states and blue states’.
“And one in four (23 per cent) Americans support their state seceding from the Union …
“There are effectively two Americas — and they are at war …
“The 2024 US election is just another battle in this war.”
Saxons and Normans: the roots of Red states vs Blue states …
“The ancestral homeland of today's Democratic Party is … East Anglia …
“Its people were mostly Saxons, and they governed themselves through councils called ‘folkmoots’, which became the model for the New England Town Meeting.
“Many East Anglians were middle-class artisans, and their literacy rate was twice the rest of England's — Cambridge University is located here.
“They were also anti-aristocratic — during the English Civil War, they sided with Oliver Cromwell in his fight to defeat Charles I and the Divine Right of Kings.
“The East Anglians brought their book-learning ways to New England, where they founded Harvard.
“To this day, New England has higher levels of income and education than any other part of the country.
“… [Their] philosophy of government [was] ‘ordered liberty’, which is another way of saying ‘liberalism’.
“‘Ordered liberty’ … meant accepting restraints on one's behavior to preserve social harmony.
“In modern terms, that means gun control, sexual harassment laws and environmental regulations.
“It's also why you see so many small cars in New England.
“Virginia was settled by the Cavaliers, the Puritans' royalist enemies in the English Civil War.
“They came from southwestern England, which was Norman-influenced and aristocratic.
“Virginians believed in hierarchy.
“Their laws were designed to preserve the power of masters over servants.
“In a New England town, the cop was an elected constable.
“In a Virginia county, it was a sheriff, appointed by the king ,..
“You can't be a lord without someone to lord it over, so Virginia imported slaves from Africa …
“After the Revolution, these cultures spread out across America.
“The New Englanders settled in upstate New York, the Western Reserve of Ohio, and then moved onward to Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, northern Indiana and northern Illinois …
“It was a world of middle-class farmers, liberal arts colleges and abolitionism.
“Eventually, it came to encompass Washington and Oregon as well.
“This part of the country voted overwhelmingly for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and strongly supported the Union during the Civil War …
“Six generations later, Greater New England, added to the Delaware Valley, is an almost perfect overlay of what we call the Blue States.
“The regions diverge strongly on the use of violence.
“The Cavaliers brought with them an honor culture, in which duels and feuds were acceptable ways to avenge insults …
“The murder rate in the South is 7 per 100,000. In New England, it is 2.4 …”
Could the United States be headed for a national divorce?
ReplyDelete‘There are effectively two Americas — and they are at war.’
…
“Half (54 per cent) of self-described strong Republicans in America now think it is very or somewhat likely there will be a US civil war within the next decade.
“Four in ten (40 per cent) strong Democrats agree.
“Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene … has called for a ‘national divorce’.
“‘We need to separate by red states and blue states’.
“And one in four (23 per cent) Americans support their state seceding from the Union …
“There are effectively two Americas — and they are at war …
“The 2024 US election is just another battle in this war.”
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/02/could-united-states-be-headed-national-divorce
Saxons and Normans: the roots of Red states vs Blue states
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“The ancestral homeland of today's Democratic Party is … East Anglia …
“Its people were mostly Saxons, and they governed themselves through councils called ‘folkmoots’, which became the model for the New England Town Meeting.
“Many East Anglians were middle-class artisans, and their literacy rate was twice the rest of England's — Cambridge University is located here.
“They were also anti-aristocratic — during the English Civil War, they sided with Oliver Cromwell in his fight to defeat Charles I and the Divine Right of Kings.
“The East Anglians brought their book-learning ways to New England, where they founded Harvard.
“To this day, New England has higher levels of income and education than any other part of the country.
“… [Their] philosophy of government [was] ‘ordered liberty’, which is another way of saying ‘liberalism’.
“‘Ordered liberty’ … meant accepting restraints on one's behavior to preserve social harmony.
“In modern terms, that means gun control, sexual harassment laws and environmental regulations.
“It's also why you see so many small cars in New England.
“Virginia was settled by the Cavaliers, the Puritans' royalist enemies in the English Civil War.
“They came from southwestern England, which was Norman-influenced and aristocratic.
“Virginians believed in hierarchy.
“Their laws were designed to preserve the power of masters over servants.
“In a New England town, the cop was an elected constable.
“In a Virginia county, it was a sheriff, appointed by the king ,..
“You can't be a lord without someone to lord it over, so Virginia imported slaves from Africa …
“After the Revolution, these cultures spread out across America.
“The New Englanders settled in upstate New York, the Western Reserve of Ohio, and then moved onward to Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, northern Indiana and northern Illinois …
“It was a world of middle-class farmers, liberal arts colleges and abolitionism.
“Eventually, it came to encompass Washington and Oregon as well.
“This part of the country voted overwhelmingly for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and strongly supported the Union during the Civil War …
“Six generations later, Greater New England, added to the Delaware Valley, is an almost perfect overlay of what we call the Blue States.
“The regions diverge strongly on the use of violence.
“The Cavaliers brought with them an honor culture, in which duels and feuds were acceptable ways to avenge insults …
“The murder rate in the South is 7 per 100,000. In New England, it is 2.4 …”
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/the-roots-of-red-vs-blue/1942878/
The English civil war of 1642 never ended?
ReplyDelete"At 2 November 2024 at 01:51 , Anonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteSaxons and Normans: the roots of Red states vs Blue states"
Methinks its more about same old Jewish factions fighting each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=axlfShhxxl8
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ReplyDelete"At 2 November 2024 at 01:51 , Anonymous
ReplyDeleteSaxons and Normans: the roots of Red states vs Blue states"
Methinks its more about same old Jewish factions fighting each other.
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