Sunday - June 15, 2008
Today in GOP History
Sorry. We can’t have teh big excitement every day ya know. Ok, it’s actually Trinidad Romero’s birthday, but I’ve never heard of him. Maybe he was the very first Republican from New Mexico or something.
However, I did get Zak’s book, Back To Basics For The Republican Party, and it’s quite a read. It’s history, and lots of it. It’s like being back in 10th grade Social Studies, only this time without the sugar coating. He’s got about 800 references in the bibliography, so it’s pretty obvious he can back up whatever he says. And it’s quite interesting. I’m only 80 pages into it at this point, but so far the concept is that the slavery question was a huge thorn in America’s side since the very beginning. It didn’t just pop up one day and there was civil war over it the next. But the people who were against it, even during the Revolution, were the people would form a political outlook that would eventually become the Republican Party. And the people that were for it were the Democrats. Always. Always.
Some interesting things in there too, as little factoids.
Do you know who hillbillies really are? I didn’t. Everybody knows that during the Civil War the southern soldier was ubiquitously called “Johnny Reb”, the same way a British soldier was Tommy Atkins during WWI. But less widely known is that “Johnny Reb” was fighting “Billy Yank”. And that the “northern” and “southern” attitudes were not universal; New York City was strongly “reb”, and parts of the south - many parts of the south - were pro-Union. As an aside, this often got people killed; 44 folks in Texas were hung from the same tree at one time for their loyalty to the union. Texas Governor Sam Houston was kicked out of office for opposiing secession. There were Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi regiments in the Union Army during the war. So things weren’t exactly homogenous. And one place they weren’t was up in the mountains of Appalachia, in the border states. So the Billy Yanks who lived up in the hills ... were hillbillies. I did not know that. Course, that was long before NASCAR.
Let me get another few days of reading done on this one, and I’ll put up a review. No question that this is a history book, but it is a good bit more interesting than what we got in school.
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