Comments on: You can see shadows of the future already being cast

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 03:47:40 +0000

You are surprised that solipsistic gnostics are ‘hypocritical’ about ‘diversity for thee, but not for me’?

Basicbitch conservakin, or purposefully disingenuous squid ink? How about option C, all of the above?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 02:00:37 +0000

Pseud: “*They* certainly wanted their pets to stay right where they were; and they got what they wanted.”

I suppose that’s why they shipped Ron DeSantis’s golden children right off their wonderful little island without a second thought.

It’s almost like…

By: Mike in Boston

Mike in Boston — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 20:30:22 +0000

the Irish, German and Italian folkways and their influence on American culture.

This may not be “folkways”, but anybody writing about that should visit bars in Connecticut, where a plurality of immigrants are Italians; and Massachusetts where, of course, the plurality are Irish.

Irish tend to be angry drunks and Italians happy drunks, and that makes the average bar experience different in the two places.

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 23:16:15 +0000

Who was The Great Emancipator in the face of the abolitionists who put him into power?

*They* certainly wanted their pets to stay right where they were; and they got what they wanted.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 01:57:26 +0000

The “butternuts” claim is substantially untrue. The Borderers who flooded the Southern Illinois region centered on St. Louis were latecomers, as can be seen in this illuminating dialectical map.

https://i.ibb.co/K2Gy3YY/soda-or-pop.webp

Just like everywhere else, the people who founded the industry that made the region so attractive to migrants were of Massachusetts-Bay.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 01:42:35 +0000

Johnny Reb were much again’ it, but the Great Emancipator hisself, who saved the Union, wanted to retvrn the slaves to their native land.

Those dam-ned East-Anglian Massachusetts-Bay Puritans…

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 13:06:51 +0000

James McPherson, in “Battle Cry of Freedom,” puts the North/South boundary at 41° N, which is about Mansfield, Ohio. North of that you have the Yankee economy of wheat, milk, and cows. South of it you have the Confederate economy of corn, whisky, and pigs. (McPherson’s criteria.)

I grew up eastern Massachusetts, actually in inner city Boston for a while, but I went to graduate school at Purdue (Yankee country), and I have lived in central and north central Ohio for the last 50 years. The culture shock from Dorchester to West Lafayette was severe, even though the trek was from one Yankee colony to another, but eventually I came to like it.

McPherson got the cultural divide right. Southern Indiana and Ohio have distinct Confederate-like cultures, at least outside the cities, and eastern Ohio is definitely Appalachian.

Confederate battle flags and decals are quite common, often paired with the American flag. I have even seen the American flag, the Canadian maple leaf flag, and the Confederate battle flag in the same yard. (I haven’t seen any Ukrainian flags here in north central rural Ohio.)

I do not have a clue as to what the pairings of flags means. For that matter, I’m not sure what the Confederate battle flag itself means to some people. For most it seems to mean rebellion and independence, with a decidedly muted racial undertone, if any.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:39:06 +0000

I’d love to see Fischer write about the Irish, German and Italian folkways and their influence on American culture.