07-20-2020, 11:13 PM
(07-20-2020, 10:35 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: [ -> ](07-20-2020, 06:18 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: [ -> ]There is a very long term way of looking at things which is laid out in the book The Cousin's Wars. It proposes that the English Civil War started the split between what has become the modern red blue conflict. There was an aristocratic, rural, high church cavalier faction, and a democratic, urban, low church roundhead faction. The first immigrated to the southern states when they were losing, and the last immigrated to the north. Both cultures made significant contributions, each in their own way, to how America evolved.
Still, it is generally the Roundhead pattern where equality, human rights and democracy is pushed forward. The roundhead urban faction has wound up pushing the new values, the cavalier rural faction the old.
I suspect this has some bearing for why you are an advocate for the southern, rural, racist, red perspective of today.
Now I can't say that the cavalier culture hasn't contributed to America. They just wind up supporting the racist violent element, which is a disadvantage when the 4T comes around. They tend to get smoked.
How would you plan to eat during the Liberal war with Rural America? How do you keep Suburban America from siding with Rural America? How do keep what's left of Urban America from leaving and siding with Suburban America and Rural America? You're right, Liberal America which ain't all that liberal or all that democratic either these days would end up getting smoked by America.
Rural areas would find themselves without the big urban markets for agricultural production. Oh -- so they would ship foodstuffs overseas for funds for the war? Most of the big port cities, including New Orleans and Houston, are liberal communities. Your beloved rural areas will lose a big market.
Rural America gets much of its culture from liberal areas -- Hollywood, New York City, and even Nashville. (Nashville is a fairly liberal city... and that's the center of country music in America. Much of our GDP is intellectual property from movies to recorded music to books. The big publishing houses are in giant cities such as New York.
Rural America would be missing much of the imported stuff from overseas as the ports are no longer yours. The shelves would be bare at Wal*Mart except for foodstuffs that are there. Your farmers would have to export food... which would be a big problem.
You have a very narrow image of what constitutes America.