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Yankeedom
YANKEEDOM. Founded on the shores of Massachusetts Bay by radical Calvinists as a new Zion, Yankeedom has, since the outset, put great emphasis on perfecting earthly civilization through social engineering, denial of self for the common good, and assimilation of outsiders. It has prized education, intellectual achievement, communal empowerment, and broad citizen participation in politics and government, the latter seen as the public’s shield against the machinations of grasping aristocrats and other would-be tyrants. Since the early Puritans, it has been more comfortable with government regulation and public-sector social projects than many of the other nations, who regard the Yankee utopian streak with trepidation.
DEEP SOUTH. Established by English slave lords from Barbados, Deep South was meant as a West Indies–style slave society. This nation offered a version of classical Republicanism modeled on the slave states of the ancient world, where democracy was the privilege of the few and enslavement the natural lot of the many. Its caste systems smashed by outside intervention, it continues to fight against expanded federal powers, taxes on capital and the wealthy, and environmental, labor, and consumer regulations.
This is the same map from Woodward's book from two years ago:(Image removed from quote.)
None of the states controlled by Yankeedom or New Netherland retain the death penalty today.
On April 5, 2012, the State Senate of Connecticut passed a bill (20 to 16) that would abolish the death penalty for future crimes. The House had passed similar bills in earlier sessions, but they had always failed to win approval in the Senate. The bill was later passed in the House on April 11 (86 to 62), and on April 25, Governor Dan Malloy signed the bill.[36][37] Connecticut has executed only one person in the last 50 years. As with New Mexico, Connecticut's repeal of capital punishment is not retroactive, and the 11 inmates currently on Death Row may still be executed, and so may those convicted of capital crimes committed before the date in which the repeal went into effect.
i have lived in a hell of a lot of thoseDeep SouthEl NorteGreater AppalachiaNew NetherlandsYankeedomI think Yankeedom is the one which suits me best culturally.
