Dumb America
Garry Wills
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/01/21/130121taco_talk_packer
COMMENT
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT
BY GEORGE
PACKERJANUARY 21, 20
Cassi Creek: But don’t let them in again if they do.
The two articles linked above provide some insight into the
resurgence of racism and anti-government attitudes that have followed the
election of Barak Obama to the Presidency of the United States.
I share some
genetic heritage with Garry Wills. My
mother’s family lived in Virginia before the Revolutionary War. It had branches in Tennessee, Alabama,
Arkansas, and Missouri before taking up arms for the Confederacy.
Wills found he enjoyed his southern relatives more than his
northern family. I had few relatives,
from that lineage, all of whom I enjoyed.
But I grew up in a border state and my allegiance and interests were
strongly northern. Despite residing in a
beautiful region of N.E. Tennessee, I am still politically a Yankee as ever,
and will remain so.
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