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 … Continue reading Divided America and the Rumblings of Secession