Scotch Irish, independent, and populist in his sentiments, Webb represents more of the true free-living Southerner in the tradition of Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone then Bush. Bush is not culturally a true “Texan”…read Michael Lind’s book, “Made In Texas”… Culturally, Bush is “born with a silver spoon in his mouth”, Establishment Banking family–socially he’s more “Animal House” then he is anything traditionally “Southern”.

The only association Bush has with the “South” is that he represents the interests of the “Plantation South”…the southern aristocracy, whose idea of “freedom” was “free trade”, but cheap contract labor — orginally indentured whites and black slaves. Mineral extraction and agriculture made profitable with a permanent serf class, were the Southern aristocrat’s idea of the American Dream. Opposing this tradition was of course, the tradition of free labor—the “Populist” South. Texas—and the South was the stronghold of the People’s Party, and elected more Populist Sentors, Congressmen and Governors then anywhere.

We’ve had two Texans as presidents in my lifetime, one whose social instincts managed levels typical of those of a young chimpanzee, and the other those of a somewhat older chimpanzee doing a Mussolini impression.

John Lowell