There are two very pertinent factors I did not see mentioned in the article, one factual and one solid speculation. The factual is a matter of age, and social maturity. Connecticut is among the oldest of states while Oklahoma among the youngest. Societies, like individuals, do show distinct personality phases as they mature… the terrible two’s, the rebellious teens… a factor influencing the respective cultures and associated government involved. A bit of arithametic: Connecticut was 5th among the original 13 in 1788, which made that state roughly 175 years old compared to Oklahoma’s 43 years as a state in the 1950’s when the article compared the two as being roughly equal. Not quite an apples to apples comparison between the cultures involved. Oklahoma is now still a younger state than Conneticut was in the 50’s. A matter of fact for the social psychologists to consider in trying to explain the shift and shear seen.
But not the only factor the social psychologists should consider, not even, and the article spoke at some length to the driving factor and fact powering the speculation mentioned above: to wit, a speculation involving the Native American population of Oklahoma.
The article makes brief mention of the infamous “Trail of Tears” (the work of the Pesident most often compared to Trump, Andrew Jackson). The Native American’s had their lands stolen from them in the social equivalent of a strong arm armed robbery, they were forced from their homes and “transported” as the Brit’s called it concerning Australia. Then their lands were over-run again less than a century later… by people of the same cultural heritage. In the lore and legend of Cultural Geography eastern Oklahoma is the western edge of what is called the Appalation group… the very bunch who were their western neighbors in their original homelands!
Those people are the headwaters of the modern Okie, and if there is one thing their cultural history and heritage has taught them, from witnessing the fate of the Native American folk, it is that the Federal government can be trusted for one thing and one thing only… to be utterly untrustworthy in all things. Blatant opportunistic liars, to be a bit more blunt.
So in the court of my opinion all the stock fauxLiberal reasons the article intimates, but doesn’t justify, as reasons for the dichotomy kind of fall in the dust, those are no more a factor here than there. Long and short of the issue is they don’t want their homes stolen from them the same way the Indian folk had their homes stolen from them by the liars of Washington DC. (and yes, that does twist the knife a bit since they overwhelmingly support Trump… their liar working the DC bunch for them).
So, concerning the feed the kids programs and having written many words to explain the folkism to follow?
October 10, 2024 @ 3:49 pm
There are two very pertinent factors I did not see mentioned in the article, one factual and one solid speculation. The factual is a matter of age, and social maturity. Connecticut is among the oldest of states while Oklahoma among the youngest. Societies, like individuals, do show distinct personality phases as they mature… the terrible two’s, the rebellious teens… a factor influencing the respective cultures and associated government involved. A bit of arithametic: Connecticut was 5th among the original 13 in 1788, which made that state roughly 175 years old compared to Oklahoma’s 43 years as a state in the 1950’s when the article compared the two as being roughly equal. Not quite an apples to apples comparison between the cultures involved. Oklahoma is now still a younger state than Conneticut was in the 50’s. A matter of fact for the social psychologists to consider in trying to explain the shift and shear seen.
But not the only factor the social psychologists should consider, not even, and the article spoke at some length to the driving factor and fact powering the speculation mentioned above: to wit, a speculation involving the Native American population of Oklahoma.
The article makes brief mention of the infamous “Trail of Tears” (the work of the Pesident most often compared to Trump, Andrew Jackson). The Native American’s had their lands stolen from them in the social equivalent of a strong arm armed robbery, they were forced from their homes and “transported” as the Brit’s called it concerning Australia. Then their lands were over-run again less than a century later… by people of the same cultural heritage. In the lore and legend of Cultural Geography eastern Oklahoma is the western edge of what is called the Appalation group… the very bunch who were their western neighbors in their original homelands!
Those people are the headwaters of the modern Okie, and if there is one thing their cultural history and heritage has taught them, from witnessing the fate of the Native American folk, it is that the Federal government can be trusted for one thing and one thing only… to be utterly untrustworthy in all things. Blatant opportunistic liars, to be a bit more blunt.
So in the court of my opinion all the stock fauxLiberal reasons the article intimates, but doesn’t justify, as reasons for the dichotomy kind of fall in the dust, those are no more a factor here than there. Long and short of the issue is they don’t want their homes stolen from them the same way the Indian folk had their homes stolen from them by the liars of Washington DC. (and yes, that does twist the knife a bit since they overwhelmingly support Trump… their liar working the DC bunch for them).
So, concerning the feed the kids programs and having written many words to explain the folkism to follow?
In Oklahoma the other word for Free is BAIT.