Greater Appalchia cum Twilight: 2000

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I have been re-reading “American Nations” by Colin Woodard. I highly recommend this book to my countrymen and Canadians. He covers the development of a “nation” he calls Greater Appalachia that originates with Scots and Scots-Irish settling in western Pennsylvania. These resettled Borderlanders carry their cultural norms into a new borderland along the spine of the Appalachians. During the period leading up to the American Revolution, the original territory of Greater Appalachia in western Pennsylvania, modern West Virginia, western Virginia, western North and South Carolina, and northern Georgia is stricken by disorder and violence. Woodard describes a civilization with few significant towns which is highly vulnerable to widespread banditry due to the dispersed nature of the homesteads. The people save little because livestock and whiskey, which had been the best forms of wealth in an area already prone to lawlessness and with very poor communication, draw the predations of bandits. It’s very Twilight: 2000.