June 4, 2008 on 9:11 am | Friedrich Braun | 2008 Election, Political Philosophy , Political analysis | | Email This Post
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In his brilliant LRC article, “The Yankee Problem in America,” Clyde Wilson describes how America came to be ruled by a peculiar sect of religious, statist fanatics that originated in New England and became known as “Yankees.” Not all Northerners are/were “Yankees,” Professor Wilson wrote, for many are obviously fine people. He was referring to “that peculiar ethnic group descended from New Englanders, who can be easily recognized by their arrogance, hypocrisy, greed, lack of congeniality, and penchant for ordering other people around.” They “have never given up the notion that they are the chosen saints whose mission is to make America, and the world, into the perfection of their own image.” Today we would call them “neocons” or “Hillary Clinton supporters.”
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