They're not too happy about all the brown and black people down here. The ones that are poor and just hanging on are hated, the ones that know how to play the the gringo game and are successful at it are loathed. You can't win playing with the Babbitts against the Bubbas and Bunkers. The Babbitts got smart and learned to speak Spanish. "They hate you if you're clever, but they despise a fool." As long as the Latin community here were reactionary Cubans, they could tolerate us, but those have been gradually replaced by Central Americans, Puerto Ricans, Marielitos, Haitians, and other working class swarthy folk, and we outnumber and outvote the rednecks now. South Florida will never be part of the New Confederacy, we'll just provide port facilities for the Latin American trade. Somebody's got to pick the citrus and do construction work in the 'Glades. The Crackers were always too damn lazy to pick their own cotton.

The New Right may be about our age, but its roots go much further back: its older than Babylon and as evil as hell. Its started when property replaced blue blood as the sign of the Chosen, and commerce and trade overwhelmed the landed aristocracy as the source of all wealth. The overthrow of the nobility began as a bourgeois revolution. In England, the Roundheads (the original Gentlemen of Property) defeated the Cavaliers, Parliament snatched the Crown (And King Charles' head along with it). In America, the wealthy landowners were commoners, and they wanted no part of King George taxing their plantations and slaves. In France, the rising middle class and the second and third sons of the nobles smashed the state, but they made sure that their Declaration of the Rights of Man had a clause sanctifying property rights. In Russia, it was the intellectuals and bureaucrats who destroyed the aristocrats.

The executive one percent control everything, but the Babbitts, the administrative, professional and managerial class, believe they're entitled to join them. They're scared. The Bunkers figured they had a chance, at least to move up a notch, or their kids might grow up to do so. They're even more scared. And the Bubbas are the same white trash Johnny Rebs who fought like demons for the freedom to own slaves even though they didn't have a rat's ass chance in hell of ever doing so. They are terrified. It looks like the only thing trickling down in the new economy is social class. Everybody is getting jacked down a notch so the one percenters can last just a little bit longer.