Here’s a peppery little post by one Anne Carter on the state of public discourse: Shrieking Monkeys.
Ms. Carter is a Southerner, and so, not having been farm-raised in the Yankee waters that our ruling classes have swum in all their lives, she is in a position to notice the moralizing and missionary zeal that has been a characteristic of our New England subpopulation’s bullying relationship with the rest of the world since its planting long ago on our Northeastern shores — a relationship that has continued, without relief to the rest of humanity, throughout that peculiar subculture’s subsequent expansion across the Midwest, victory over the Confederacy, seizure (after some strategic partnerships) of the commanding heights of American culture, and eventual conquest of Europe.
We read:
As Dr. Clyde Wilson highlights in his book The Yankee Problem, there is a segment of the American population that derives their sense of purpose from beating the sin, real or imagined, out of their fellow man.
Just so. And at last, perhaps, we’ve had just about enough.
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“The noise of the shreiking monkeys is becoming deafening. Let us remember, they can also be dangerous.”
Always true until the targets of these Leftists get a belly full of it and demonstrates just what ‘dangerous’ can look like.
My paternal grandfather was born in 1872 in the N.C. foothills and lived until age 94. I new him pretty well and remember thoughts he had about those ‘Damn Yankees’ and their never ending meddling and pontificating.
I like that “real or imagined” – reminds me of an ol’ time Baltimorian newspaper fellow speaking the what’s what.
Fantastic read — I’m a 5th generation Virginia southerner living in north Georgia — I’m done, the time for killing Yankees is well past nigh
There is very little imagined sins of yankees. They and always have been a curse to everyone who wasn’t like them.
I am a born and raised Texan. I know my Texas history better than most and the history leading up to, during and after the War of Northern Aggression, about as well as most.
There is nothing redeeming about yankees. And what is so frustrating they think they still need to run our lives. I have always known that yankees needed death in mass. Now, I am sorely convinced of it. It is THEY the yankee who has destroyed this country.
Hey! That’ll be quite enough plotting of mass murder, thank you.