On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I discuss the history of the American South with ringleader, a heritage southerner who describes himself as politically and philosophically Jeffersonian. ringleader runs dog and pony show here on Substack—be sure to give him a follow!
This was a great episode, Walt! What a historical throwback; I haven't revisited US History in this way since high school. Jeffersonian politics, indeed.
Your discussion over the Great Triumvirate and the series of nullification crises reminded me of a video project I did in 11th grade. I'll email it to you; you'll find it equally (1) impressive how well-versed I was in 18th-19th century American politics, and (2) cringe how much I let 1990s public school indoctrinate me into a fundamentally internationalist/interventionist/civil rights viewpoint.
Your guest has keen cultural perception about how Southerners have – over generations – had their history and heritage beat out of them; and that nowadays the most anti-federalist people are Northern and Midwestern intellectuals who internet LARP as Confederate-Leaning or Confederate-Sympathetic (can confirm this from experience now living in the upper South for 3 years.)
This was a great episode, Walt! What a historical throwback; I haven't revisited US History in this way since high school. Jeffersonian politics, indeed.
Your discussion over the Great Triumvirate and the series of nullification crises reminded me of a video project I did in 11th grade. I'll email it to you; you'll find it equally (1) impressive how well-versed I was in 18th-19th century American politics, and (2) cringe how much I let 1990s public school indoctrinate me into a fundamentally internationalist/interventionist/civil rights viewpoint.
Your guest has keen cultural perception about how Southerners have – over generations – had their history and heritage beat out of them; and that nowadays the most anti-federalist people are Northern and Midwestern intellectuals who internet LARP as Confederate-Leaning or Confederate-Sympathetic (can confirm this from experience now living in the upper South for 3 years.)
Lots of rich dialogue here to ponder...