Most Americans,
including Southerners, have no problem in proclaiming
that the United States is one nation indivisible. Yet,
in reality there are two Americas, the Jeffersonian
republic of local institutions that Southerners
imagine they live in and the liberal nation-state so
loved by the likes of Rosie O’Donnell. Patrick Henry
observed that when faced with a painful reality, “It is
natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We
are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth.â€
