"The historian David Hackett Fischer traces the divide back to the British settlers of colonial America. The North was largely settled by English farmers, the inland South by Scots-Irish herders. And this...The North and coasts are extensions of Europe and continued the government-driven civilizing process that had been gathering momentum since the Middle Ages. The South and West preserved the culture of honor that emerged in the anarchic territories of the growing country, tempered by their own civilizing forces of churches, families and temperance. "
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
I don't think they are. Texas, now a Republican bastion used to be Democrat. And now Dems are predicting that the Latino birth rate will return Texas back to the Dems in a decade or more.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Personally I think it is more an urban/rural thing. Blues are natually attracted to high population centers that need much more goverment control. Reds like open spaces and quiet, distant neighbors. VL says this is why the 285 corridor is the most racist, misogynist, uneducated place in the world.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
