Do Puritans’ descendants – Dean Democrats – form only a regional party?
In the post-election analysis, there is interesting thinking going on, both within the Democratic Party, and on the right, as well, as the Republicans consider the consequences of becoming a majority party. On NRO Rich Lowry, Buckley’s successor at National Review, writes that Democrats are no longer a national party. That might be a bit much, since Democrats poll in significant near-majority numbers everywhere – check out the purple politics item in Quillnews (Item1/2). Then there is former conservative operative Michael Lind, now reborn just to the left of center, who has written an outstanding political analysis in the American Prospect about the 21st Century consequences of the political culture founded by Puritans of New England. Lind’s question: Is the Democratic Party becoming the New England Party? Lind’s onto something. Years ago, Quillnews began research into family history – becoming an investigator into the origins of your editor’s own beginnings. The purposes for this were
