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\u00a0 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:<\/p>\n
O’Reilly, NYC
\nHannity, NYC
\nSustern, WI
\nM. Kelly, Syracuse, NY
\nC. Matthews, Philadelphia
\nC. Wallace, Chicago
\nC. Cuomo, Queens
\nAnn Curry, Oregon
\nMaddow, Castro Valley, CA
\nShepard Smith, Holly Springs, Miss.
\nAnderson Cooper, NYC
\nDiane Sawyer, Glasgow, KY
\nMatt Lauer, NYC
\nGeraldo Rivera, NYC
\nHoward Stern, Queens
\nJon Stewart, NYC
\nWolf Blitzer, Buffalo
\nPoppy Harlow, Minneapolis
\nBecky Anderson, England
\nCarol Costello, Canton, OH
\nMichaela Pereira, Canada
\nJim Axelrod, Brunswick, NJ
\nMorley Safer, Canada
\nDavid Rhodes, NYC
\nLesley Stahl, Lynn,Massachusettes
\nCharles Osgood, NYC
\nStone Phillips, Texas City
\nBrian Williams, Ridgewood, NJ
\nNatalie Morales, Taiwan
\nCarson Daly, Santa Monica, CA
\nGeorge Stephanopoulos, Fall River, MA
\nGreg Gutfield, San Mateo, CA
\nKimberly Guilfoyle, SF, CA
\nJuan Williams, Panama
\nAndrea Mitchell, NYC
\nDavid Gregory, LA
\nPeter Alexander, Oakland, CA
\nBrit Hume, DC
\nCarl Rove, Denver
\nKeith Olbermann, NYC
\nGlenn Beck, Washington
\nRush Limbaugh, Missouri
\nArianna Huffington, Athens, Greece
\nTucker Carlson, CA
\nMichael Savage, NYC
\nCharles Krauthammer, NYC
\nMark Levin, Philadelphia
\nGeorge Will, Champaign, Ill.
\nWilliam Kristol, NYC
\nFrank Rich, DC
\nKirsten Powers, Fairbanks
\nAlan Colmes, NYC
\nJoe Klein, Albany, NY
\nBret Baier, Rumson, NJ
\nSteve Hayes, Wisconsin<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 After Zachary, the Yankees, including Lincoln, took over:<\/p>\n
Millard Fillmore \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 New York
\nFranklin Pierce \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 New Hampshire
\nJames Buchanan \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Pennsylvania
\nAbraham Lincoln \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Illinois
\nAndrew Johnson \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Tennessee
\nUlysses S. Grant \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Illinois
\nRutherford B. Hayes \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Ohio
\nJames A. Garfield \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Ohio
\nChester A. Arthur \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 New York
\nGrover Cleveland \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 New York
\nBenjamin Harrison \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Indiana
\nGrover Cleveland \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 New York
\nWilliam McKinley \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Ohio
\nTheodore Roosevelt \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 New York
\nWilliam Howard Taft \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Ohio
\nWoodrow Wilson \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0New Jersey
\nWarren G. Harding \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Ohio
\nCalvin Coolidge \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Massachusetts
\nHerbert Hoover \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0California
\nFranklin D. Roosevelt \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 New York
\nHarry S. Truman \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Missouri
\nDwight D. Eisenhower \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Kansas
\nJohn F. Kennedy \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Massachusetts
\nLyndon B. Johnson \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Texas
\nRichard Nixon \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0California
\nGerald Ford \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Michigan
\nJimmy Carter \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Georgia
\nRonald Reagan \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0California
\nGeorge H. W. Bush \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Texas
\nBill Clinton \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Arkansas
\nGeorge W. Bush \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Texas
\nBarack Obama \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Illinois<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading Notice.<\/span>