Hoosier Politics

The practical and independent spirit of Hoosiers in political matters was epitomized by the Copperhead movement during America's Civil War.  This movement, pervasive in the Midwest and most prominent in Indiana, has been largely forgotten in the narrow and biased historiography of our contemporary textbooks.  A large swath of Hoosier farmers were refugees from slave states, bringing with them a bitter contempt for wealthy aristocrats and a familiarity with Blacks.

Many saw the secession as an opportunity to rid themselves of the South and its intractable problems.  Few shared the interests of the Northern industrialists in subjugating the South and fewer still entertained the idealistic delusions of the Yankee abolitionists.  They were guided by a simple and organic libertarianism typical of subsistence farmers and hillbilly hermits.

Senator Daniel W. Voorhees, perhaps Indiana's truest statesman, epitomized not only the spirit of Indiana during the Civil War, but the very essence of Hoosier politics.  Kenneth Stampp describes him poetically in the following excerpt from his book, Indiana Politics During the Civil War (1949):

There was an earthy quality in Voorhees, "the tall sycamore of the Wabash." On the stump his hot temper, passionate partisanship, and stirring eloquence made an irresistible appeal to the western Democracy. His bitter cries against protective tariffs and national banks, his intense race prejudice, his suspicion of the eastern Yankee, his devotion to personal liberty, his defense of the Constitution and state rights faithfully reflected the views of his constituents. Like other Jacksonian agrarians he resented the political and economic revolution then in progress. Voorhees idealized a way of life which he thought was being destroyed by the current rulers of his country. His bold protests against these dangerous trends made him the idol of the Democracy of the Wabash Valley. 

Indiana has certainly changed a lot since then, and one can only imagine how frightened and outraged our contemporary senators would be to hear a country gentleman stand before them and represent the honest and true interests of his constituents.  The "tall sycamore of the Wabash" may have died long ago, but the spirit of the Wabash Valley lives on, however muddied and muted, in our apartments and our trailers, in our family farms and our factory floors.

If one can envision Voorhees confronting McCain, one can begin to understand what happened in the 2008 presidential election, one in which Indiana surprised the nation by abandoning its “Red State” tradition.  While Democrats would like to claim that Hoosiers had a dramatic change of heart, the statistical data confirms that we lost heart.  The cosmopolitans, foreigners, and Black underclasses of Indianapolis and Gary came out in force for their messiah and the Hoosiers treated John McCain like a pariah.

But after decades of being openly betrayed and insulted by McCain, how were they supposed to react?  This is the same McCain who dismissed evangelical Christians as "agents of intolerance".  This is the same McCain who has made it his personal mission to grant amnesty and citizenship to tens of millions of illegal invaders.  This is the same McCain who angrily dismissed supporting family farmers as "pork" while vowing to continue sending the sons and daughters of those farmers to die in the desert for Israel for the next hundred years.

Rather than learn an obvious lesson from the Democrats who had effectively rallied their base to victory, the Republicans earned their nickname "The Stupid Party".  They appointed some random Black guy, Michael Steele, to lead the party in a craven attempt to embrace diversity.  Steele has supported Roe v. Wade, gay marriage, an unconstitutional ban on assault rifles, and (of course) Affirmative Action.  The GOP has made it very clear that they would just rather not have Hoosier votes, and are making strong efforts to reach out to the Hispanic invaders and hip-hop thugs who are rapidly replacing traditional American voters.

Every Hoosier must make a private decision as to whether to try to revive the GOP or embrace an alternative like the Constitution Party, but they must resist the impulse to abandon political activity.  Engaging in political activity does not even require either voting or joining a political party.  There are some fine organizations, like the Council of Conservative Citizens, which enable us to organize and make a difference without compromising our principles.

Our options for defending our way of life through peaceful means are growing fewer and fewer with each passing year, which is why it's imperative that we begin organizing on a local level immediately.  The science is in, the statistics are freely available, and our opponents are openly working to replace our America with its globalist cosmopolitan regime.  The time has passed when Hoosiers could plead ignorance.  The only explanation for inaction at this point is cowardice.