Salon.com > Colin Woodard http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:16:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Southern values revived http://www.salon.com/2012/07/01/southern_values_revived/ http://www.salon.com/2012/07/01/southern_values_revived/#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2012 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12948037 It's been said that the rich are different than you and me. What most Americans don't know is that they're also quite different from each other, and that which faction is currently running the show ultimately makes a vast difference in the kind of country we are.
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Right now, a lot of our problems stem directly from the fact that the wrong sort has finally gotten the upper hand; a particularly brutal and anti-democratic strain of American aristocrat that the other elites have mostly managed to keep away from the levers of power since the Revolution. Worse: this bunch has set a very ugly tone that's corrupted how people with power and money behave in every corner of our culture. Here's what happened, and how it happened, and what it means for America now.

North versus South: Two Definitions of Liberty

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