The Hoover Transition

As James Edwards likes to tell you, I am an amateur historian.

I’m not simply a “Southern Nationalist” or “Neo-Confederate” or “White Nationalist.” While I love studying the Confederacy and the War Between the States, it was only 4 years of our history as a people. It is not even the period of Southern history that I find the most interesting:

“The campaign of 1928 and its aftermath did usher in a new political epoch, but not a two-party South. It was as if all the peculiar forces of the 1920’s – prohibition, fundamentalism, nativism, religious bigotry and the nascent middle-class Republicanism – had united in one glorious and disastrous finale. All were shaken and discredited by the misfortunes of the administration they helped to install, and their discomfiture cleared the way for a new progressive coalition, the New Deal.”

I get pigeon holed and dismissed by dumb people as a “racist.”

As we saw yesterday though, I can probably run circles around all these “journalists” in history, philosophy, political theory and political science. I’m too intelligent, educated and altruistic to be a “mainstream conservative.” That’s why I never fit in with those people.

The Donald Trump era reminds me of the Herbert Hoover era in some ways. We’re not in the Great Depression yet but the inevitable reckoning is coming. Conservatism appears to be reaching its climax in much the same way as it did when Hoover was president and Wall Street crashed in 1929. There is so much wealth in our society, but it is all being concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite. It is not being distributed down to the Millennials and Zoomers.

Note: The excerpt above comes from George Brown Tindall’s The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945