How the South Won (This) Civil War | Print Article | Newsweek.com

The outcome was that a substantial portion of the new nation developed, over many generations, a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores. Traditionally, it has been balanced by a more diplomatic, communitarian Yankee sensibility from the Northeast and upper Midwest. But that latter sensibility has been losing ground in population numbers–and cultural weight.

It seems the ruffians of the south and the west have upset a tea party somewhere up north.

While I don’t particularly shive a git about some schmuck from Newsweak, let me make one point — the last thing I can remember anybody from back East inventing was sub-prime mortgage derivatives. How’s that working out for you, Melvin? Marvin…whatever.