Jack Perry’s very able article, Seeds of Secession, should remind each of us of one of the central factual realities concerning American history: America has always been divided, divided on geographical, ethnocultural, ethnoreligious, and ideological lines.
Through it all there has been intermittent rumblings of secession.
Whigs (American revolutionaries) versus Tories (British loyalists);
Northern Federalists versus Southern Democrats;
Northern Yankees versus Southern Confederates;
Midwestern and Southern agrarian Populists versus the Northeastern industrial/banking Establishment;
Republican Northeastern Establishment versus Midwest Old Right and Solid Democratic South;
Northeastern seaboard “Yankees” versus Sunbelt “Cowboys.”
Now we have the latest configuration: Middle America versus Coastal America.
11:50 am on January 15, 2017