There is much discussion in the news about Election 2004 and the "Old Confederate States". A recent CBSNews.com article, published day after the election on their website, quotes: "No section of the nation received Mr. Bush's values-laden message more enthusiastically than the Old Confederacy." (full story) Even the speaker on this mornings KQED Perspective: Look Away, Dixieland shares a candid and humorous perspective on this same subject. Although, I admit it seems a bit outlandish to draw such literal parallels between two historical events separated by almost 140 years, it still intrigues the mind. I wonder if Mark Twain was referring to such historical analogies when he wrote: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
There is much discussion in the news about Election 2004 and the "Old Confederate States". A recent CBSNews.com article, published day after the election on their website, quotes: "No section of the nation received Mr. Bush's values-laden message more enthusiastically than the Old Confederacy." (full story) Even the speaker on this mornings KQED Perspective: Look Away, Dixieland shares a candid and humorous perspective on this same subject. Although, I admit it seems a bit outlandish to draw such literal parallels between two historical events separated by almost 140 years, it still intrigues the mind. I wonder if Mark Twain was referring to such historical analogies when he wrote: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
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