Mark Twain’s remark: “‘Kentucky is twenty years behind the rest of the world. So when the world ends, I want to be in Kentucky.’

Pride could be based on recovery.

this I meant provoking liberal/left critics (moment 1) so that they will move into a scold (moment 2), enabling him to claim victimhood (moment 3) and roar back (moment 4).

Over the last forty years, the prison population has been relocating from city to country. Today 53 percent of all American prisons are located in small towns or rural areas. For example, New York convicts far more prisoners each year than Pike County, but most of those convicted in New York serve their sentences in rural areas upstate.

But he had paired the lie with a truth—the truth of lost pride. And he had bonded—even fused—with his followers, saying to them, in essence, All those who shame me shame you. Through the alchemy of his repetitions, the list of things that had been “stolen” grew longer. As items passed from “lost” to “stolen,” matters passed from shame to blame. Wit

Indeed, the word pride is derived from the Late Latin prode, which means “being of use”—

So across the nation, a poignant, unnamed pride paradox has taken shape. And it is this: We have divided into two economies and two cultures, one red, one blue. Red states faced both tougher economic times and the more demanding, old-school brand of individualism in which no government help, no class or racial advantage—only one’s own hard work—cou

it’s not just stores and jobs that get segregated but our memories themselves.”

The more highly placed a person is, the less they tend to think about it.