Southern values revived. How a brutal strain of conservative American aristocrats have come to rule [View all]
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/01/southern_values_revived/
How a brutal strain of conservative American aristocrats have come to rule America.
Its been said that the rich are different than you and me. What most Americans dont know is that theyre also quite different from each other, and that which faction is currently running the show ultimately makes a vast difference in the kind of country we are.
Right now, a lot of our problems stem directly from the fact that the wrong sort has finally gotten the upper hand; a particularly brutal and anti-democratic strain of American aristocrat that the other elites have mostly managed to keep away from the levers of power since the Revolution. Worse: this bunch has set a very ugly tone thats corrupted how people with power and money behave in every corner of our culture. Heres what happened, and how it happened, and what it means for America now.
North versus South: Two Definitions of Liberty
Michael Lind first called out the existence of this conflict in his 2006 book, Made In Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics. He argued that much of American history has been characterized by a struggle between two historical factions among the American elite and that the election of George W. Bush was a definitive sign that the wrong side was winning....