Brion McClanahan observes: Yankees are having their revenge on the rest of America. Michael Lind argues that the modern mess of wokism is blowback from Southern dominance the general government from the New Deal through the 1980s. Lind correctly shows that Southerners used the government against powerful Yankees for about fifty years. It’s payback time. He might have a point. We live in Yankee America with the political puritans in both parties attempting to shove nationalism down our throats. More importantly, the culture war wouldn’t be possible without the presence of the Yankee elite in prep schools and universities. As Lind … Continue reading →