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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (40331)	1/10/2010 10:36:12 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 71588

...You might even say that the four parties I'm talking about correspond roughly to the four 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.