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...course on challenges to American national identity would naturally include some discussion of place-based or regional challenges, but this is clearly not what brings most students to the course. Racial and ethnic strains on nationhood are well understood, but the idea that a region like the Rocky Mountain West might begin to question the prevailing nationalist assumptions seems outlandish--or, in another word, provincial. But such an attitude no longer becomes a world-class center of learning...
...himself more often as an African than as a South African? And why (on an infinitely more humble scale) would someone who had every opportunity to have the provincialism wrung out of him by Harvard, come back here thirty years later as an unabashed loyalist of the Rocky Mountain West? The answers to all these questions have fundamentally to do with democracy...
...lifelong loyalties is to the Democratic Party, and as a western Democrat, I am naturally concerned that the West is now the most Republican region in the country. No small part of the blame for that can be attributed to the Democratic Party's thorough nationalism. This continent's mountain region has always felt itself colonized by the national government. That it still feels that alienation is reflected in the fact that the Republican Party, always willing to trash Big Government, now dominates every level of government in the interior West. As a Democrat, I think the time has come...
Daniel Kemmis '68 is a fellow at the Institute of Politics. A former speaker of the Montana House of Representatives and former mayor of Missoula, Mont., Kemmis is now director of the Center for the Rocky Mountain West...
...eluded their dragnet for almost nine months without straying far from his backyard. Rudolph is also wanted for an attack on an Alabama abortion clinic in which an off-duty policeman was killed, but the feds hope the new charges will smoke him out of his North Carolina mountain hideout. "Investigators hope that the new charges will make any antiabortion fanatics who may be helping Rudolph back off," says TIME Atlanta bureau reporter Tim Roche...