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2016 Postmortem

bemildred

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1. "The American patriotism of the white Southerner is therefore deeply problematic."

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue Feb 5, 2013, 12:51 PM

Feb 2013

Indeed.

It took me the longest time to figure that out, back in the 70s and 80s, that a desire for death and glory in foreign wars DOES NOT TRANSLATE to any form of patriotic allegiance to the federal government as such. The loyalty, such as it is, is entirely to the military caste, ones native society, and to the Pentagon.

And that is crazy, crazy as a shithouse rat.

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The white South’s last defeat [View all] DonViejo Feb 2013 OP

"The American patriotism of the white Southerner is therefore deeply problematic." bemildred Feb 2013 #1

An ironic thing is that the south as a region has the lowest percentage of males registering for... Tom Ripley Feb 2013 #2

If somebody really wanted to be in the military NewJeffCT Feb 2013 #5

TY for the link. The article is very interesting... Hekate Feb 2013 #3

The actions they have taken to change the laws to block voters davidpdx Feb 2013 #4

This is more of a urban-rural issue than southern SpartanDem Feb 2013 #6

About that Urban/Rural Divide... BlueDemKev Feb 2013 #7