Meddling Yankees
"A meddling Yankee is God’s worst creation; he cannot run his own affairs correctly, but is constantly interfering in the affairs of others, and he is always ready to repent of everyone’s sin, but his own," wrote a North Carolina newspaper in 1854, quoted by Clyde N. Wilson — What is History? Part 38.
Of course, not all Yankees are meddlers and not all who meddle are Yankees, and with immigration and migration the term "yankee" should not be used describe all (or only) people from the North. Meddling Yankees today are those left-liberal and neoconservative cultural descendants of the puritans battling to immanentize their own particular eschatons at home and abroad through political and/or military force.
(More elaboration on this theme — Damn Yankees!.)
Of course, not all Yankees are meddlers and not all who meddle are Yankees, and with immigration and migration the term "yankee" should not be used describe all (or only) people from the North. Meddling Yankees today are those left-liberal and neoconservative cultural descendants of the puritans battling to immanentize their own particular eschatons at home and abroad through political and/or military force.
(More elaboration on this theme — Damn Yankees!.)
Labels: America the Beautiful, Dixie, Left-Liberalism, Neoconnerie
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