![]() ![]() It’s not surprising to see the Confederate flag and the swastika marching hand in hand with another. The slogan espouses the ideal of the peasantry being the foundation of the nation and its conservatism. It’s a slogan heavily utilized by Nazis and it idealizes agrarian life as a counterweight to urban forms, but also contains racist and anti-Semitic ideas of a sedentary Germanic-Nordic peasantry as opposed to (specifically Jewish) nomadism. Lee, in Charlottesville 2017, were chanting “blood and soil,” a slogan expressing the nineteenth-century German idealization of a racially defined national body (“blood”) united with a settlement area (“soil”). The white nationalists protesting the removal of a statute to Robert E. It’s actually race, the issue which has consistently divided us more than any other throughout our history, which is the real wedge. There is real resentment and condescension in rural America for city-dwellers, but it’s not over what urbanites eat, drink, consume culturally or how much they wave the flag. The bit really should have been retired after 2004, because Karl Rove was the last operative to use it effectively. ![]() It’s such a laughable contradiction that these days the only well-known figures still clinging to the idea are irrelevant buffoons like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee. Not just a big city, but the largest and most populated city of all. This crowd, in the supposed “heartland,” has a cult like devotion to a man from a big city. The old Republican tactic of trying to divide and conquer with the moronic “city people aren’t real Americans” narrative has now reached new levels of hypocrisy with Trump. Land itself doesn’t vote, only the population does. Every state is magenta, and none are actually red or blue.Īnd even the county map itself is also grossly inaccurate, as it shows Donald Trump winning an overwhelming majority of the “land,” even though he lost the popular vote by three million. ![]() It’s actually the electoral map at the county level, not the state, which actually gives you a much clearer picture. It’s a much better and healthier way for us as a country to keep fighting the Civil War better the battle waged in a recreational game than in the courts, or in violent protest.Īnd right now, we’re hearing a lot about civil war, mostly from far-right extremists, domestic terrorists and other MAGA heads obsessed with Trump, who are infuriated by the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.īut what they don’t realize is how the red state versus blue state narrative is a fiction. Thus, every college football season it’s the SEC versus the rest of the country, and the bowl system feeds into this by intentionally trying to pit a northern team against a southern program whenever possible. Just like with secession and rebellion, a lot of SEC fans believe that they have had a special, unique American experience. “American by birth, southern by the grace of god.” SEC exceptionalism is a football fan version of an old saying you commonly hear below the Mason-Dixon line: Since 2004, every national championship but one has been claimed by a school from a Southern or literally former Confederate state. It’s also almost identical to the Zaxby’s map, for what it’s worth.įrom 2006-present, a SEC school has won every national championship but four, leading many SEC fans to believe that they are exceptionally distinct from the rest of the country. This weekend kicks off another season of college football, a sport that has morphed into a Civil War metaphor over the past couple decades.Īs you can see above, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) map is nearly identical to the Confederacy map. The civil war will be staged in the marketplace of ideas instead. It originally ran in the summer of 2017, and we have now updated it in certain places. ![]() Editor’s Note: the original publication where this article was posted has since been eradicated, so we brought this post over to The Sports Bank before it got deleted. ![]()
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