Michael Hirsh, writing in Newsweek, tells us what he really thinks about people who are different than he, and although I don't think he is clinging to any guns or religion, he does seem just a tad bitter at those whom he sees as having "a rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores" This is a stunning piece of self-revelation:I've watched the Southernization of our national politics at the hands of the GOP and its evangelical base.......the "radical nationalism" that has so dominated the nation's discourse since 9/11 traces its origins to the demographic makeup and mores of the South and much of the West and Southern Midwest--in other words, what we know today as Red State America. This region was heavily settled by Scots-Irish immigrants....  the Southern frontiersmen never got over their hatred of the East Coast elites and a belief in the morality and nobility of defying them....  a substantial portion of the new nation developed, over many...(Read Full Post)