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Since the days of the Greeks, writers have been consumed by their meals. But are we writing about food or is food a metaphor for something less palatable? ....
Divided We Stand: Eleven Regional Rivalries from Mountain People to the Swamps of Dixie dissidentvoice.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dissidentvoice.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Orientation The reason Yankee fans and Red Sox fans hate each other goes a lot deeper than sports. In his book American Nations, Colin Woodard identifies eleven regional cultures in the United States. He compares the conditions of the home country, settler conditions, climate, geography, religious history, population density and international loyalties. He points out the parallels between how settlers’ regional locations in England impacted the type of regional culture they developed in the United States. My purpose in this article is to: reveal the political bankruptcy of trying to fit eleven different regions into two political parties, and; reveal the economic bankruptcy of industrial capitalists in forming a single nation-state by attempting to pulverize the differences between these regions. ....