Thanks for another one, podrock. Brin provides an intellectual framework for something I've observed too (and you don't have to be something of an outsider like ER).
Conservatives have always felt like unreconstructed Confederates.
When I occasionally toy with the idea of America reconsidering allowing the South to secede, I imagine it as a process of unwinding the Rebel "diaspora" after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Over the decades since, Southerners have scattered throughout all of America, but they remember their cultural roots. I imagine, idly I'm sure, that given the chance to reestablish their traditional homeland in the South, many of them would heed the call and move back to Dixie.
I grew up in California familiar with the Confederate battle flag, on decals and hung in garages. I didn't really notice the incongruity of a few Confederate symbols at Fourth of July celebrations. I knew kids with faint twangs to their speech, and parents who were full-blown rednecks...yet still generations removed from Dixie.
That's Brin's Confederacy Society, today's neo-confederacy, a virtual nation inside a nation. Chewing away at the wiring of democracy, patiently preparing for the South to rise again.
Brin's right.
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A worthy read indeed
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