The Hill News

Our first post-war journey was west, busting through the Smokies with Davy Crockett on his way to the Alamo to help out Jim Bowie. Politics and demographics brought us there, as Americans crossed the plains and Appalachian hills to Texas and the West. Our best and most important presidents post-war were Westerners: Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, but now we face a collapse of the Western awakening as the Northeastern establishment conspires to take it back. Rick Perry is a real full-blood prince of the desert, and that is perhaps what is freaking them out.

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