The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

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.