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Los Angeles is approximately 40% foreign born Imagine an army of the people in LA invading Idaho and Wyoming and you’ll understand the basic population dynamics of the war between the states It was a revolt of the founding stock against the transformation of the country

@AccentsSouthern @DanDraffen @WeenieWeatherWX I took this when I was there in 2022.

@DanDraffen @WeenieWeatherWX Gorgeous

Be extravagant. This is your world.

@adamkjohnston Trump is literally saying we should reclaim our heritage, how is this a “final victory” for the universalists??

There is a fundamental schizophrenia within the American founding: the Revolution of 1776 and the subsequent counter-revolution of 1789. While some of the founders were looking to reclaim their rights as Englishmen, others were universalists who outright rejected their heritage. Today, we are witnessing the final victory of the universalists over the inheritors.

American must be understood as its own ethnos. You’re not a mutt, you’re not English-Irish-French-Italian-Polish-Scottish-German because you’ve got fractions and percents of each. You belong to your own ethnic group unique to this continent distinct from all others. Theodore Roosevelt understood this well. “The children and grandchildren of the men who came here from England, Ireland, Germany, France, Scandinavia, and the rest of Europe have become Americans—a new race, with a new ethnic type, and they are no more Englishmen or Germans or Scandinavians than the descendants of the Norman invaders of England are Frenchmen. The frontier conditions made a new race. The stern struggle with the wilderness and with wild men welded together the descendants of many European stocks into one people—the American. Out of the crucible of the wilderness came a new ethnic type, hardy, self-reliant, democratic in instinct, and with a continent for its inheritance.”

@CSandbatch For years I’ve had an affinity for loblolly pines that I cant explain. I’ve been all over, seen the redwoods in NorCal, nothing compares.

Recently got called "parochial" because I think North America is the most beautiful place on the planet, but in truth I'm *even more* parochial than that, in that the longleaf pine savannahs are the glowing center of it all. There is no more beautiful smell or sight than stumbling onto a live burn line in the pinelands.

"The old South, though gone, leaves behind the charms of its history and the legacy of its people." -William Faulkner

Jackson, Mississippi

When asked, "What race do you believe make the best soldiers?" The reply was: "The Scots who came to this country by way of Ireland. Because they have all the dash of the Irish in taking up a position and all the stubborness of the Scots in holding it." - Gen. Robert E. Lee

small town texas

Charleston, South Carolina.

The South will save us

A people and a place. Not an economic zone.

@RolandGunnTN I drive for a living. Can confirm.

Commute time now down to 3 minutes. 3 years ago it was close to an hour. It’s not just about the time you get back, being on the road a lot every day is spiritually/psychologically draining.

Actually we don’t lol

@TMTLongShort Don’t know about “flawless,” looks like the supply shock effects might be pretty brutal. Esp wrt fertilizer.

Flawless victory 😎

@GraduatedBen Agreed, but what’s your opinion on the potential for huge supply shock risks it could trigger? I’m seeing a few geopolitical commentators that I trust posting about possible major global repercussions in the coming weeks/months.

If the Iranian missile program was getting to the point of being able to hit Diego Garcia, suddenly the timing and urgency of this war makes a lot more sense.

@CynicalPublius Agreed, but what’s your opinion on the potential for huge supply shock risks it could trigger? x.com/katusaresearch…

A basic truth Democrats will not admit.

The Allure and Burden of the "Lost Cause" [A note before we begin: I come from deep Confederate Southern roots, and I know the phrase "Lost Cause" carries freight it was never meant to bear. I don't mean here the postwar mythology that whitewashed history or excused what cannot be excused. I mean something older and larger — the thing that Margaret Mitchell and Robert Heinlein and C. Vann Woodward and Shelby Foote and William Faulkner all circled around in their different ways: the strange enduring human pull of causes carried forward even in defeat. I don't normally stray far outside strictly military history, but while I study and write about Atlanta's fall and recall how 'Gone with the Wind' fixed it in memory.... all this makes me occasionally take time and pause to think through what the South's memory of loss did to its literature, its music, its voice.] There is a curious power in a lost cause. Not the kind of power that wins battles or changes governments — the other kind, the kind that outlasts victory, that gets under the skin of a people and won't let go. History knows this. Literature knows it. Even science fiction has grappled with it. Defeat leaves a mark that triumph somehow doesn't. Victories get celebrated, then filed away and half-forgotten. Losses endure. They become identities. Margaret Mitchell understood. When she put words in Rhett Butler's mouth — her roguish, half-cynical hero who had seen through the Confederacy from the start — she gave him the line that would echo longer than anything else in 'Gone with the Wind': "I'm going to join the army. … I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost." Clark Gable delivered it in the 1939 film almost word for word, and it landed just the way Mitchell meant it: half-romantic, half-rueful, a recognition that there's something noble, even seductive, about throwing your lot in with a cause that cannot win. Not nobility in the cause itself, mind you. Nobility in the gesture — in the going forward when the end is already written. Three decades later, Robert A. Heinlein circled the same truth from a different angle. In 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,' his philosopher-revolutionary Bernardo de la Paz — guiding a Lunar rebellion against Earth that had no business succeeding — put it this way: "Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory." Where Rhett saw romance, the Professor saw dignity. Principle mattered even when it lost. Maybe especially when it lost. In both cases, defeat became not just an end but a kind of transcendence. These are fictional voices, but they resonate because they're rooted in something real. The South knew it before Mitchell or Heinlein ever set pen to paper. William Faulkner, who carried the South's ghosts in his bones, wrote it plainest in 'Requiem for a Nun': "The past is never dead. It's not even past." For Faulkner, defeat wasn't abstract. It was woven into the fabric of the present — individuals and families and whole communities laboring in webs spun long before their time, bound by consequence and memory they didn't choose but couldn't escape. The Confederacy's loss wasn't a closed chapter. It was a living ghost. C. Vann Woodward gave this sensibility its scholarly form in 'The Irony of Southern History.' He argued that the South bore a burden the rest of the United States did not — couldn't, really, because the rest of the country had never known total defeat. While the nation at large celebrated triumphs and expansion and exceptionalism, the South carried humiliation, poverty, racial crisis, and the plain fact of having been conquered. Woodward put it this way: "Southern history, unlike American, includes large components of frustration, failure and defeat. It includes not only an overwhelming military defeat but long decades of defeat in the provinces of economic, social, and political life." That's not sentiment. That's fact. The South lost the war, then lost the peace, then spent generations losing arguments about what it all meant. Defeat piled on defeat until defeat itself became the defining experience. Shelby Foote — novelist turned historian, Southerner to the marrow — said it even simpler in Ken Burns' 'The Civil War': "As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has." Where Woodward dissected irony, Foote described feeling. That sense of defeat became a cultural inheritance, passed down not in history books alone but in songs, in humor, in manners, in the way people talked about time itself. Taken together — Rhett Butler's gallantry, Heinlein's philosophy, Faulkner's haunted prose, Woodward's historical irony, Foote's cultural lament — these voices converge on a single truth: defeat carries its own kind of permanence. Victories can be celebrated and then forgotten. Losses endure. They become identities. They inspire literature and music, color politics and culture, shape how people see themselves in the stream of history. For the American South, that defeat was the Civil War. The Midwest remembers sacrifice and Union preserved. The West folded the war into its larger frontier myth. The North celebrated vindication. But the South? The South lives with memory of catastrophe. Its cause wasn't merely lost — it was woven into identity itself, inseparable from the question of what it meant to be Southern at all. That's why the South produced so much of the nation's most powerful literature, music, cultural expression. Because it carried the burden of memory. The blues, with its mournful beauty. Country ballads of loss. Faulkner's haunted Yoknapatawpha County, where every field held a ghost and every family carried a curse. All threads in that web. The past is not past. And in the South, defeat proved as enduring — perhaps even more spiritually satisfying — than victory. Shelby Foote and William Faulkner

@TonerousHyus Looks like they’re saying it’s the fertilizer that’ll be affected. ? I know very little about supply chains etc. just sayin their criticism goes beyond oil.

@sotsscc Wheat rice and corn? Lol these regions produce barely any of that

The entire criticism of the war so far is that gas prices went up 40 cents and if that’s the extent of the complaints it’s the most well executed war I’ve ever seen. It’s also not even a real complaint