re: #532 HappyWarrior

Yeah very true about that. You mean Quaker Pennsylvania though. New Jersey had pockets of Quakers but PA was the colony founded by them. Know this since when I took a class on the revolution, I was the one who got New Jersey. But yeah you’re right, the slaves had a huge impact on Southern culture in several ways. As a nation founded by immigrants, our culture is constantly evolving. People who pine for the way things “used to be” are pining for a different point of our cultural evolution. My childhood’s collective culture was different from yours and both of ours different from our grandparents and this coming generation of children.

Sorry about that. Brain fart. But to be entirely accurate, West NJ was part of the Penn colony. It’s what we’d call southern NJ now.

The culture these people want only existed on the TV of the 1950s. Remember, that yokel with the “Make America White Again” billboard specifically mentioned Ozzie & Harriet and Leave It to Beaver as exemplars of “white America.” Those shows were fiction, and designed to appeal to the predominant buying demographic — middle class white people. But try explaining that to a white supremacist.