A Similar situation happened with the South Carolina German Dutch Forkers. Many of the folk living there were still living on King's Grant land, and had farms, churches, and towns. But the land was eminent domained by the government to build the Lake Murry dam, displacing them. Because of the alure of a lake, soon carpetbaggers came down and build mansions along the lake side, killing the German culture. O.B. Mayer, a local writer in the 1800s lamented the death of the Dutch Fork culture because the folk were using cotton instead of flaxseed for their clothes, but I do not think he knew how bad things would get.
"But this is just about a three-county stretch from Kentucky to Tennessee. It’d be silly for me to think you could extrapolate this to any aspect of our lives today."
My sixth-great-grandfather’s historic cabin was likewise submerged when Feds built Sutton Lake in West Virginia. He was long passed, but his great-grandson was evicted and wrote the famous fiddle tune “Elk River Blues” in mourning.
"But this is just about a three-county stretch from Kentucky to Tennessee. It’d be silly for me to think you could extrapolate this to any aspect of our lives today."
I'd be hard pressed to find this statement genuine rather than sarcastic. This whole thing drips with Yarvin's "What's up with the Third World?" passage, and other statements he's made about liberalism about the globe. The Progressives don't *even* take over an area to make it better, invest in it, grow its productivity, improve its cleanliness or order, only to harvest its profits. No, they just move in, morally lecture, exploit, torture and tatter, then walk away bored. Like shithole children beating a cat for fun. This extrapolates to basically anywhere the "international community" dares to plop its tentacles.
A Similar situation happened with the South Carolina German Dutch Forkers. Many of the folk living there were still living on King's Grant land, and had farms, churches, and towns. But the land was eminent domained by the government to build the Lake Murry dam, displacing them. Because of the alure of a lake, soon carpetbaggers came down and build mansions along the lake side, killing the German culture. O.B. Mayer, a local writer in the 1800s lamented the death of the Dutch Fork culture because the folk were using cotton instead of flaxseed for their clothes, but I do not think he knew how bad things would get.
"But this is just about a three-county stretch from Kentucky to Tennessee. It’d be silly for me to think you could extrapolate this to any aspect of our lives today."
Yes, silly. /sarcasm
My sixth-great-grandfather’s historic cabin was likewise submerged when Feds built Sutton Lake in West Virginia. He was long passed, but his great-grandson was evicted and wrote the famous fiddle tune “Elk River Blues” in mourning.
"But this is just about a three-county stretch from Kentucky to Tennessee. It’d be silly for me to think you could extrapolate this to any aspect of our lives today."
I'd be hard pressed to find this statement genuine rather than sarcastic. This whole thing drips with Yarvin's "What's up with the Third World?" passage, and other statements he's made about liberalism about the globe. The Progressives don't *even* take over an area to make it better, invest in it, grow its productivity, improve its cleanliness or order, only to harvest its profits. No, they just move in, morally lecture, exploit, torture and tatter, then walk away bored. Like shithole children beating a cat for fun. This extrapolates to basically anywhere the "international community" dares to plop its tentacles.