America’s Tribes: ” In the past 40 years, the Democratic and Republican parties in the US have almost
entirely switched places. But a longer-lasting contest underlies this strange
history,” says Michael Lind, a senior fellow at the New American Foundation in Washington
“—a struggle between two tribal coalitions, the socially-minded Puritans of the
north and the colonial gentlemen of the south.” Ethnography, not ideology, is the way to understand American politican partisanship in this fascinating incisive essay. Prospect