I am actually a student of Kieran Healy's at UofA.
I do not think that the majority of rational, legitimate
conservatives are concentrated in the bible belt. The southern
conservatives, Rush Limbaugh included, are demogogues. If one
groups those whose, "lives are tied up in church, family, and
business" into a class of conservatives, we must remember that Bill
Clinton was religiously conservative, ran his own business, and his
family...well his family life would be the exception.
I consider myself conservative in many ways. Dan Drezner's post is
not totally illegitimate. Here is a conversation I recently had
with a bleeding heart just prior to Kieran's class:
bleedy:"Why are you wearing an American flag pin? Don't
you know that patriotism is not the way"
marcum:"Well, I am a patriot. I feel it is my civil duty to express
my patriotism with not-so-arbitrary symbols of nationality."
bleedy:"That is disgusting. You should know better than that."
marcum:"Do you ever consider that I never critisize you
about your politics; I do not complain when you brag about anti-war
'die-ins' or your uneducated plight about the state of Bush
Administration domestic policy versus Clintons. Why do you even
care that I am a patriot; why am I worthy of your criticism?"
bleedy:"Well, I honor your intentions, but I am right and you are
all wrong."
Just after this conversation, we both sat through Kieran's lecture
on Durkeheim's "generation of solidarity" through collective
orientation towards a totem.
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