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In woodards reckoning virginia is about evenly divided between its tidewater and appalachian components and they hate each other very much the tidewater component is pseudoaristocratic and more genteel while the appalachian western half of the state is more roughhouse scotsirish and lends itself to a variety of derogatory nicknames of which redneck is one of the milder

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People who havent traveled extensively just dont understand why were so fractured

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Well its a big country and there are many different cultures out there

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Although indigenous peoples were all over the continent in the 16th century europeans specifically french dutch british german and scots irish often violently claimed the land for themselves and then declared sovereign states or nations frequently excluding those who were here first

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After reading this you will no longer wonder why the south is so authoritarian and racist why washington and jefferson and madison were tidewater aristocracy and natural candidates for leadership why the far west is so antigovernment but so very willing to accept its financial help why the appalachian region is poor but independent and antiauthoritarian and why new york is the diversity and finance capital of the nation

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He is not strong on dealing with the people who involuntarily found themselves here the africans and gives little space to their contributions to these regions

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A whole lot of stuff you sort of already knew but did not really understand suddenly

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To note woodard is not writing a textbook