There is a palpable anti-ubran prism in the American Consrvative Magazine — what, the cities being the home of those damned blue people — and so… TAKE ONE!

Imagine two cousins, one with a graduate degree making $50,000 per year in a creative industry, living alone in a small apartment in a “vibrant” (i.e., dangerous and expensive) metropolis. The other with a bachelor’s degree earns the same income in an unglamorous business and lives with a spouse and children in a home on a quarter acre lot in a “boring” (i.e., safe and moderately-priced) suburb. Which one is more likely to vote Democratic?

Yes. “Dangerous” as substitute for “vibrant”.

Which makes the appearance of Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, of North Dakota, a rather liberal Senator in one of those red states that if you peel a bit beneath the surface wily things pop out at you, and an essay on the Dangers of Wal-Mart to the economy surprising. Taking into account this motley crew of self described “paleo-conservative”s’ disregard for the doctrines of Free Trade, I’m still hit up against the wall of the weary belief that the Over-educated Elitists and elitists are secretly anti-Walmart for elitist nose-thumbing reasons.

But whatever. Publish excerpts from books from the head of the Democratic Party’s “Policy Committee”, and publish away, American Conservative magazine, as you solve the problems of the Democratic Party by proposing they emulate William Jennings Bryan.

So we have a Vinn Diagram here of three articles. The overlap for this issue’s articles go from “What Ails the Democratic Party” to “appreciations of William Jennings Bryan”. I don’t quite know what to make of their desire to create the Democratic Party in the image of William Jennings Bryan, except I don’t believe that the bulk of those “Secular Humanists” are ready to give ground on the Theory of Evolution just yet. Populism is all good and well, except I’ve found that basically everybody is a populist when one’s opinion is in the majority — or are in tune with whatever particular rabble being referred to — and an elitist when one’s opinion is in the minority — or are working against that rabble. Cue the insoluble Democratic problem in the South:

Yet modern Democrats seem to have forgotten that they once owned the allegiance of “the Solid South.” Here’s DNC chairman Howard Dean, a Vermonter, explaining it to The New Yorker: “The Democratic Party was built on four pillars—the Roosevelt intellectuals, the Catholic Church, labor unions, and African-Americans.” In other words, white Protestant Southern Democrats such as Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson have been tossed down the memory hole. One suspects that Southerners have noticed this disrespect, resolving to return it in kind.

While we’re at it, toss in the next two Democratic presidents after Truman and Johnson, so we can look at the Missourian (tis a border state) Truman, Texan Johnson, Georgian Carter, and Arkansan Clinton. All four were Democratic candidates selected to solve the crushing down of the South for the Democratic Party, and I can go into how in individual cases if asked. All four ended up being thought of as Yankee imposed facades — still fighting the Civil War in the Age of Reconstruction. In the first two cases, Civil Rights for black Americans stands as the defining issue of the South’s abandonment. I suspect such would occur if Virginia Governor Mark Warner is nominated and elected.

Curiously, the American Conservative Magazine has high hopes for the Democratic candidate for Senate in Virginia — Jim Webb, a man I can point out is probably in the end is probably more “progressive” (I hate that term) than was his more standard Democratic opponent. We shall see. Everything permeates from Virginia, it seems. Tom Kaine, the current Democratic governor, will quote Jesus at you as surely as Bryan…

… though, you know, that just means that those Liberals are trying to fool us all with that Jesus thing.

(Oh, and Hubert Humphrey is the problem.)

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