It should end as:

Well sir, you’ve lost your colony

Regardless, of the benefits of ending a corrupt labor system, the northern states raked in financial benefits and certainly gained economic domination. Some of their gains imitate the pattern of any typical conqueror. In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, northerners purchased valuable southern and south eastern resources at fire sale prices, and yet still kept their residences in the north. This situation meant that the taxes and profits from coal mines, horse farms, lumber production and natural gas often went out-of-state for decades. Southern states, like India were convenient for providing their raw materials for northern factories and then as markets to purchase northern products. I don’t need to remind anyone here how the tax and revenue cycle would impact schools and cultural opportunities.

Of course, these conditions restricted development in industry, education and cultural opportunities. These regions lacked the financial reserves to kick start their economies. One might hope that northerners such as Mr. Hirsh would have the common sense to understand that this earlier poverty cycle was not due to the culture’s intrinsic “coarseness” or the “savage” nature of southern people, but rather to the burdens of history limiting opportunities for southern youth. Instead He espoused a twisted version of White Man’s Burden. Hirsh argues that the northern grownups were once able to take the childlike southern savages by the hand, and lead them into the light of civilization– Please Mr. Kipling, focus on your own backyard; Chicago may be burning again.

I suspect if Mr. Hirsh viewed a similar situation on a different continent; he would demonstrate a new found sympathy and advocacy for their struggles. Correct me if I’ve misunderstood, but I don’t believe that northern states attempted to help rebuild the southern states during the late 19th or even the early 20th century. In fact, some of its cultural leaders appear to have enjoyed picking over the bones for depressing scenes featured in their literary and film projects. They gawked at southern culture as though they were visiting exotic animals in a zoo. What was hinted but remained unsaid was the belief that the South deserved to be punished for decades after the war.

There is a reason Mr.Hirsh adores lording it over another American region, and beats his breast at the prospect of losing his Sahib status. His tone is an ancient one; found in the contemptuous accents of conquerors.

freevillage on April 28, 2008 at 12:26 AM

You are confusing conservatism with the messy conglomerated over-reaching “big tent” that the Republican party has become.

Of course the red states are going to get more money. If you keep filling the till we will of course keep trying to drain it. And what better way to drain it then in our own backyards. If the blue states would quit sending these tax and spenders to washington we would quit having to take all their money. what’s that saying “a fool and his money are soon parted”

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So all those people who have no goal in life but to stay on various welfare programs. They aren’t leeches on the society. They are Professors of Applied Libertarianism who have committed their life to an important cause of educating others on how to be fiscally responsible.

Uhmm… no. The reality is much more trivial. Any brief familiarization with stats will reveal that people in the South vote for spending just as easily as they do here in Massachusetts. NC where I used to live for a while is run by the Democrats with an iron fist. Yet in the Presidential elections a Democrat will have no chance.

Why?

Because local politics is much more about “infrastructure” and “education”, and Presidential politics is much more about fuhggits and wearing a flag pin. And the red staters, particularly in the South will choose more government every single day. The only “conservative” position is let’s have less taxes. Which isn’t a position at all.

- OK, kids… the Daddy has made a tough decision. From this day on… and I don’t want to hear any objections!… our income will triple!
- Uhm… may I ask, how will that happen?!
- My opponent (who happens to be my wife) is against tripling our income.

President Bush has expanded the government beyond belief. Who on the “conservative” side cared? It’s not like they are voiceless. When it comes to judges who need to make sure that every time a woman has sex she effectively signs a contract by which she must raise an additional child if need be (remember, condoms don’t work!), the right-wing nuts have plenty of voice.

(I supported conservative judges but not because of abortion.)

It’s quite clear that the right wing doesn’t care about fiscal conservatism. They are a definitionally totalitarian force. Always more government. Medicare? More government. Guys making out? More government. People checking books from libraries? More government.

People around the world often look up to America. Not as many as Americans love to pretend but some do. You know what they think of when they think of America? NYC and Silicon Valley and Hollywood. Nobody says, if only Vienna was more like Bumf&^ck, KS or MS.

So yeah, make something nice out of where you live right now, cut down on lectures on patriotism. Then teach teh Northeastern Elite how to be less arrogant.

freevillage on April 27, 2008 at 7:40 PM

sounds like Stephen king. when will the nort learn that cuss words lose their flavor after about the second usage? crude very crude. The author forgets to mention that its the blue states that keep sending people to washington whom vote to raise their taxes. The South sends people to washington whom votes to take those taxes and give it back to the people. Of course the red states are going to get more money. If you keep filling the till we will of course keep trying to drain it. And what better way to drain it then in our own backyards. If the blue states would quit sending these tax and spenders to washington we would quit having to take all their money. what’s that saying “a fool and his money are soon parted”

Say what you want about the southern secession, but actively trading with a foriegn power with whom your nation is at war with is a far greater treason, don’t you think?

The greatest piece ever written on this subject.

P.S. No, I don’t endorse or agree with every single word. But overall it’s excellent and right on point.

freevillage on April 27, 2008 at 7:40 PM

Bitter much?

P.S. No, I don’t endorse or agree with every single word. But overall it’s excellent and right on point.

Any conservative, moderate or libertarian who still buys Newsweak needs to take a second look.

The Yankees were the mercantilists and Tories. Eventually they wrested control of the government from the Southerners and started their project of creating a strong central government and weakening the States. The result was a bloody civil war, from which it took 100 years for the South to recover. Some good that northern sensibility did us!

The worst excess of government in our nation’s history, the Alien and Sedition Acts, came from the Yankee mind of John Adams and his followers. The Virginian who followed him repealed them. I daresay the liberal mavens at Newsweek would not have approved of this Yankee creation.

I love how modern liberals claim Thomas Jefferson as one of their own because he championed the separation of church and state. Jefferson would utterly repudiate the modern liberal welfare state and a $3 trillion federal government with a $9 trillion debt. In fact, he would have led a revolution against it long ago.

Proof positive. Liberals (90% Yankees) are idiots.

Southernism is taking over our national dialogue. Maybe it’s time for the North to secede from the Union.

If only!

lately I’ve been noticing more and more floating quotes on HA (and Michelle Malkin’s site) without attribution – yes, I know we find the guilty party when we click on the link – but it shouldn’t take much longer to just say “Hirsch at Newsweek says:”

Personally, if I’d seen up front that it was some hack at flush-my-Koran Newsweek, I wouldn’t bother reading it. And I used to write for that publication.

As for F. True nobody is better or worse, but any and every minority is to be treated “special”.

Dash on April 27, 2008 at 8:37 AM

” All animals are equal: some are just more equal than others “

Also reenactments of the greatest act of treason don’t take place here in Boston.

freevillage on April 27, 2008 at 8:55 AM

If memory serves me right, it was the North that invaded the south.

Well I read what Mr. Hirsh wrote about us
Well I see old Michael’s putting us down,
Well I hope Michael Hirsh will remember
Southern man don’t need him around.

radjah shelduck on April 26, 2008 at 10:15 PM

In my opinion, thread winner.

The North fought the Civil War to subdue the South in ways far beyond what King George III had required at our Revolution. The North simply wanted to OWN the South, which as victors they assumed rights over all these generations. That the South remains intact today is more than the North can bear.

Hirsh ignored the obvious–

The North never accepted the South following the Civil War. That Washington and Jefferson and so many other most intrinsic framing leaders have been Southern is a matter that Northeastern elitists persist in ignoring or revising mentally.

Hirsh is just another of those frauds who said they’d move out of the USA if Bush got elected, if Bush got re-elected, and now say if McCain wins they will take the land with them…