Blue State/Red State--WHITE State?

The national news media has divided America into blue states(allegedly liberal) and red states(allegedly conservative). But why no white states? What is wrong with white, the third color of the American flag? Implication of politically-incorrect white racial hubris tacitly understood, perhaps?

In any case, white symbolizes purity. Contrast with either conservatism or liberalism could also be understood in this case. How about purity of the U.S. Constitution's rule of impersonal and impartial law, uncorrupted by partisan predilections of either blue liberalism or red conservatism? The U.S. Constitution is actually both: the late U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes once said we must abide by the U.S. Constitution when it pinches us, as well as when it comforts us. Otherwise, there is no point to governance by a national constitution.

The U.S. Constitution is like a two-edged sword: it comforts us with its liberalism as it allows us a latitude of exercise of freedom previously unknown in all human historic experience. At the same time, it pinches us with its conservatism as it places absolute demand upon us to yield to the equal legal prerogatives of other citizens, who see fit to exercise these same freedoms in ways which rub us the wrong way, and rattle our cages. Indeed, we often frown in abject disapproval upon those who dare to differ from us in the manner by which they exercise Constitutional freedoms. Yet, it is no test of the true strength of our Constitutional republic, and of our commitment to the same, if the only exercises of freedom we permit are those with which we all unanimously agree.

Without God-given, inalienable rights extended to individual citizens, there is precious little difference between democracy and mob-ocracy. Herein lies the danger of either blue-state or red-state mentality. Thomas Jefferson best expressed the case for white state consciousness by saying, "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty."

-LKM