As waves of Yankees continue to migrate south to live the good life in a good climate, the South continues to lose its identity, in the same way America is losing its identity as waves of illegal aliens cross its borders. The South lost the Civil War 151 years ago, almost to the day. The region experienced utter devastation — an elegant land turned into a wasteland. Yankee Republicans wanted to round up the Southern leadership for execution but Lincoln would have none of it. Still, the Union Army occupied the South for 12 years. Yankee carpetbaggers invaded eagerly, realizing that “to the victors go the spoils.” Rape had many faces. The South would never recover from its crime and never be rid of its punishment. Today, the South remains a second-class citizen, maligned and disrespected, however generously it may be coveted for its geographical blessings. Hollywood forever has reserved its venom for the South, incessantly depicting a society and a people as imbecilic, uncultured, racist yokels — almost sub-human. If you bother to notice such a thing, Yankees and  Californians run the entertainment industry. If you bother to notice such a thing, Yankees dominate television news. These are the most well-known faces you see and hear daily — you will note how many of them hail from the beleaguered South:

O’Reilly, NYC
Hannity, NYC
Sustern, WI
M. Kelly, Syracuse, NY
C. Matthews, Philadelphia
C. Wallace, Chicago
C. Cuomo, Queens
Ann Curry, Oregon
Maddow, Castro Valley, CA
Shepard Smith, Holly Springs, Miss.
Anderson Cooper, NYC
Diane Sawyer, Glasgow, KY
Matt Lauer, NYC
Geraldo Rivera, NYC
Howard Stern, Queens
Jon Stewart, NYC
Wolf Blitzer, Buffalo
Poppy Harlow, Minneapolis
Becky Anderson, England
Carol Costello, Canton, OH
Michaela Pereira, Canada
Jim Axelrod, Brunswick, NJ
Morley Safer, Canada
David Rhodes, NYC
Lesley Stahl, Lynn,Massachusettes
Charles Osgood, NYC
Stone Phillips, Texas City
Brian Williams, Ridgewood, NJ
Natalie Morales, Taiwan
Carson Daly, Santa Monica, CA
George Stephanopoulos, Fall River, MA
Greg Gutfield, San Mateo, CA
Kimberly Guilfoyle, SF, CA
Juan Williams, Panama
Andrea Mitchell, NYC
David Gregory, LA
Peter Alexander, Oakland, CA
Brit Hume, DC
Carl Rove, Denver
Keith Olbermann, NYC
Glenn Beck, Washington
Rush Limbaugh, Missouri
Arianna Huffington, Athens, Greece
Tucker Carlson, CA
Michael Savage, NYC
Charles Krauthammer, NYC
Mark Levin, Philadelphia
George Will, Champaign, Ill.
William Kristol, NYC
Frank Rich, DC
Kirsten Powers, Fairbanks
Alan Colmes, NYC
Joe Klein, Albany, NY
Bret Baier, Rumson, NJ
Steve Hayes, Wisconsin

The fact that Yankees are in charge of political commentary makes perfect sense since Yankees also have prevailed over the White House since 1850. Andrew Johnson, a Tennessean, did inherit the WH following Lincoln’s assassination; but toward the end of his term, sympathetic to the plight of the South, he was impeached and acquitted by one shaky vote. In subsequent years, only two Southerners — Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton — would come to power. If you bothered to notice such a thing, one was a miserable failure and the other an impeached perjurer — not exactly what you would call illustrious stewards of the nation’s giant Southerners — Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe.  After Zachary, the Yankees, including Lincoln, took over:

Millard Fillmore      New York
Franklin Pierce      New Hampshire
James Buchanan          Pennsylvania
Abraham Lincoln      Illinois
Andrew Johnson          Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant      Illinois
Rutherford B. Hayes      Ohio
James A. Garfield      Ohio
Chester A. Arthur      New York
Grover Cleveland      New York
Benjamin Harrison      Indiana
Grover Cleveland      New York
William McKinley      Ohio
Theodore Roosevelt      New York
William Howard Taft      Ohio
Woodrow Wilson          New Jersey
Warren G. Harding      Ohio
Calvin Coolidge      Massachusetts
Herbert Hoover          California
Franklin D. Roosevelt      New York
Harry S. Truman      Missouri
Dwight D. Eisenhower      Kansas
John F. Kennedy      Massachusetts
Lyndon B. Johnson      Texas
Richard Nixon          California
Gerald Ford          Michigan
Jimmy Carter          Georgia
Ronald Reagan          California
George H. W. Bush      Texas
Bill Clinton          Arkansas
George W. Bush          Texas
Barack Obama          Illinois

And, sure enough, we now have a NY Yankee at the top of the GOP heap, at least for the time being. Trump’s antagonist is one Hillary Clinton, originally of Chicago. Sanders is a Brooklyn boy. You know the rest — Rubio from Miami, Cruz from Canada, Kasich from Pennsylvania and Carson from Detroit. Gratefully, Lindsay Graham didn’t get traction and further demean the South’s reputation. Before him, you may remember another South Carolina native John Edwards, a sleaze who came perilously close to high office. The South likes to claim Newt because he represented Georgia but he came from Pennsylvania stock. If you bother to notice such a thing, the Old South just doesn’t seem interested in leadership. Maybe the South has decided to ignore the denigration and ridicule dished out by Hollywood and the Networks. But something tells you, if things get bad enough, you’ll hear from the South again. It’s in the genes.

Somewhere in America, some people have no axe to grind and no bone to pick. They belong to no activist movement. They lobby for no special attention. They go about their lives unnoticed, trying to make a life, getting things done, unobserved, under the radar. They don’t hate their jobs and don’t hate their employers. They have political opinions they never express publicly — only at the ballot box. They were fondly and  commonly called the Silent Majority. They are still silent, but no longer a majority. Their numbers have been dwindling, replaced by affiliations, alliances, clubs, coalitions, federations, gangs, leagues, syndicates, unions and other special interest organizations. These organizations and the people they represent do have axes to grind and bones to pick. They are the dissatisfied. Their chief complaint is discrimination. They feel unaccepted, victimized by bigotry, intolerance, inequity, injustice and prejudice. They are American Women, African Americans, Latin Americans, Arab Americans (Muslims), Native Americans, the LGBT Community, Jews, Atheists, Illegal Immigrants and others. Each of these groups is represented by several National Special Interest Groups (SIG’s)that speak for them. You assume these groups are in business to assign blame to the Discriminators and seek some type of redress. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a published list of Discriminators. Who are they? Against all odds, through a brilliantly executed process of elimination, you are able to expose, once and for all, these detestable culprits — none other than white Christian men of European descent, the ancestors of America’s lily white Founding Fathers. Get rid of white Christian men and discrimination would instantly and forever pass into history. African Americans would instantly excel and succeed. African American law enforcement would put an end to violent black death at the hands of white racist cops. Getting rid of filthy rich white men would eliminate income inequality, and thus, poverty. Women finally would rule the workplace. Harvesting baby body parts would become a thriving industry. The LGBT community would grow and prosper as a mainstream lifestyle. Latin Americans could cross the Southern border without interference or recrimination. In the spirit of multiculturalism, Muslims would be free to bring their religious practices and Sharia law to their restricted neighborhoods. And wars would end. But eliminating Christian white men doesn’t square with reality. Deporting all white Christian males doesn’t seem a reasonable solution to the discrimination problem. Nor is it feasible that discriminated victims could emigrate to countries that have no white Christian males. This conundrum will require impeccable leadership — someone who despises white men — someone who first-hand has experienced abuse at the hands of a white male — someone who could motivate Christian white men to voluntarily flee the American scene as fast as possible. And if that fails, she can talk discrimination to death.

Torture is a uniquely human invention and endeavor. For some, inflicting physical pain satisfies a sadistic hunger. For others, inflicting mental suffering satisfies a need for domination. Apparently, there’s exquisite joy in both. In the Pit of Despair, Prince Humperdinck could simply have executed Westley but chose to delight in his agony on The Machine. For some, you see, there’s no substitute for hands-on torment. For others, however, there’s no substitute for dispensing misery on an epic scale. From her sheltered office at the State Department, Secretary Clinton twiddled while Benghazi burned and Americans died. From the comfort of her New Castle digs, Clinton conspired as the Middle East erupted and ISIS arose from the rubble. From her seat on sleek private jets, Clinton plotted her presidential run, as her private email server risked America’s national security and the very lives of Her foreign agents. From her mouth at the most recent campaign stop, you heard sounds that no man living or dead can tolerate — sounds that every man fears — sounds that make every man’s skin crawl — sounds that make water boarding seem like child’s play. This is true torture — hearing those shrill, strident, jarring, piercing sounds. As she shouted, screamed and screeched, you contemplated the new terror of a new Clinton presidency. Suddenly, foreign policy, the economy, immigration and healthcare seem trivial. IRS intimidation is just politics as usual. Harvesting and selling baby body parts is nothing of consequence. The national debt, poverty, crime, terrorism and corruption are mere distractions. Suddenly, you grasp the meaning of unimaginable horror — something Dorothy must have felt when she first heard the banshee shrieks of the Wicked Witch of the West. Suddenly, you remember that Clinton would be Commander In Chief. That would place the nation’s military directly in her line of fire — verbal fusillades which no amount of training could alleviate. Suddenly, you recall that she yelled her support for every special interest except yours — for women’s rights, student rights, LGBT rights,  African American rights and immigrant rights — but not a syllable about white working men. You can only pray, every hour on the hour, that every real man and every real woman of any color and any political affiliation, will reject this deceitful old lady — not because she’s unethical and unscrupulous — and not because she’s never accomplished anything of value in her ineffectual career. No, she (and her sleazy husband) must finally be rejected and sent away, because this Nation of the People, by the People and for the People can little endure the daily assault of that grating, torturous voice.