Politics is not about choosing the best candidate, but rather choosing between the unpalatable and the disastrous.
My husband is actually English aristocracy on one side (Barony in the North Riding of Yorkshire - right up until Culloden Field), and The great-grandson of the former head of Johns Hopkins hospital on the other. The English side became gentlemen farmers in IL. Well into the 1000's of acres. His uncles still farm it. But they were on the other side of the War - he still has the Union cavalry saber. Though time spent in the Deep South whilst in the Corps certainly rubbed off, as well.
My family is more firmly peasant stock. But the last two generations have been more prone to what my grandmother terms "overeducation." ;-)
I find egalitarians make the transition to aristocratic society just fine - so long as they get to be the aristocrats. *eg*
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Date: 2008-04-22 03:02 pm (UTC)My husband is actually English aristocracy on one side (Barony in the North Riding of Yorkshire - right up until Culloden Field), and The great-grandson of the former head of Johns Hopkins hospital on the other. The English side became gentlemen farmers in IL. Well into the 1000's of acres. His uncles still farm it. But they were on the other side of the War - he still has the Union cavalry saber. Though time spent in the Deep South whilst in the Corps certainly rubbed off, as well.
My family is more firmly peasant stock. But the last two generations have been more prone to what my grandmother terms "overeducation." ;-)
I find egalitarians make the transition to aristocratic society just fine - so long as they get to be the aristocrats. *eg*