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That's an interesting take I hadn't really thought of before. Do you have any book or reading recommendations on the topic?
by arminiusreturns 6y ago
That's an interesting take I hadn't really thought of before. Do you have any book or reading recommendations on the topic?
- scruple 6y agoNot the GP and I don't have any book recommendations but, at least as a starting point, it begins with the history of the Whiskey Rebellion.
- panzagl 6y ago"Albion's Seed" by David Hackett Fischer was the foundation of the Appalachian studies course I took a couple decades ago. Basically you had the old Tidewater aristocracy, the Puritans who supplanted them as the intellectual elite from the Revolution to the Civil War, and the Scots Irish who were kicked from the border marches to Ireland to America to Appalachia. Explains a lot of the class and religious differences that are still apparent in the red/blue divide.
- libraryatnight 6y agoIf you're interested about the booze side of things, I recommend "The Alcoholic Republic" https://www.amazon.com/Alcoholic-Republic-American-Tradition/dp/0195029909 https://www.amazon.com/Alcoholic-Republic-American-Tradition...