Word: postbellum
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...legislative process has been defiled by such pursuit of partisan equilibrium. Issues ought to be decided on their merits, not their political repercussions. Sure, a degree of politicization has always been present on Capitol Hill, but this brand of congressional balance-of-power politics was conspicuously absent from the postbellum annexation of Western states, including Hawaii and Alaska. What does it say of the state of our nation that the issue of D.C. voting rights has exposed a political schism reminiscent of antebellum America...
When a state lives with a story line of decline for so long, it doesn't just affect the mood. It becomes part of the culture. Whereas America's history has been one of expanding horizons, yours has become funnel-shaped. Much like the postbellum South, Rust Belt culture looks backward at an idealized past--a nostalgia not for plantations but for three-bedroom houses paid up on blue collar salaries. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...tell it, Morrison reaches back in time--way back. Beloved was set in 1873, in the chaos of postbellum America. A Mercy is set in 1680, when America was nothing more than a loose amalgamation of Indians, religious zealots and malodorous trappers and traders wandering a continent over which territorial lines had been only lightly and provisionally sketched...
...National Guardsmen went door to door, banging on mansions on historic St. Charles Street and shotgun shacks in Uptown, rousting the holdouts. TIME went along with a Louisiana narcotics officer as he led a team of Texas National Guardsmen and Michigan cops on a search-and-evacuate mission through postbellum homes gussied up by modern-day gentrifiers. "Police! Police! Open up," one officer yelled as another stood nervously in the street, holding his gun at the ready. They busted in the door on several clapboard homes after smelling something foul, fearing that bodies were inside. "One lady told...
...Paris, 43, spends a few minutes telling a heartfelt story about his Jewish great-great-grandfather, who escaped European persecution in 1859, landed in Mississippi and became a successful merchant in an economy built on slavery. "He went from persecution and obscurity to a place of prominence in the postbellum South. I am a son of that," Paris says. That same man fought on the Confederate side, and his battlefield mementos were passed down through the generations to Lee Paris...