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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (40382)1/12/2010 9:39:19 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Re: "If your looking for coherent ideological and interest groups within the two big parties you'd have to break it up to more than 2 each."

Yep! I agree.

And, (IMO), the Libertarian philosophical leaning (expressed by about 15% to 20% of the American public in poll after poll) is currently the LARGEST political grouping that is 'homeless'... ignored (except when some pandering and lieing is required around election time to grab some votes... <g>) and trashed REGULARLY by the policies output from both major Parties....

Still... that being said, I thought the line of thinking expressed in the article was interesting (and new to me), and it made me interested in reading the book:

...political cultures first identified by historian David Hackett Fischer in his classic book Albion's Seed. That book traced the main currents in American political ideology to the folkways and notions of liberty imported from four British regions that provided the population of early America.

1) East Anglia gave us the Puritans of New England, with their emphasis -- "liberal," in today's terms -- on community virtue.

2) The Quakers who settled the Delaware Valley established a society and politics built on problem-solving and compromise.

3) Southern England gave us the Virginia cavaliers, founders of a conservative, aristocratic tradition.

4) And the Scotch-Irish who settled the Appalachian backcountry produced a populist, anti-government, "don't tread on me" mentality.

I think that that could explain a lot about American politics even today! (Just look at the politics of the low-country South, of Appalachia through the Ozarks, of the North East, etc.)
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