02-27-2014, 01:33 PM
While technically the initial meaning was "out of many states, one nation", the interpretation at an individual level is most certainly a valid one. Our nation, in our lifetimes, has gone from a Republic of states with their differences into a more monolithic nation. With enhanced mobility of population and even more with mobility and diffusion of thought at light speed, the melding of local culture and thought processes is more significant.
The organic "America" is no longer the Normal Rockwell small town midwest existence. It is now the urban America, where cultures and tribes merge together into an amorphous whole.
Politicians that neglect this truth have been on the losing trend for years, and don't seem to understand it.
The organic "America" is no longer the Normal Rockwell small town midwest existence. It is now the urban America, where cultures and tribes merge together into an amorphous whole.
Politicians that neglect this truth have been on the losing trend for years, and don't seem to understand it.