“B Side” (Part Two of The Review)

The historic ‘Route 29’ which connects my neighborhood to this restaurant was known as ‘Lee Highway’ for a very long time. At least for as long I’ve been alive. But recently, and due to cancel culture and political correctness and racial sensitivities, they cancelled “Lee Highway” and resorted to calling it “Route 29.” “Lee Highway” was in reference to General Robert E. Lee of Virginia. He was the supreme leader of sorts. Supreme leader of the Confederacy who fought the Union during the Civil War period. But when it was all said and done, General Lee ended up surrendering to the Union and he negotiated the surrender down to conditions and terms which no one in the Confederate South really liked, but were forced to accept nonetheless. Virginia is perhaps the richest state in the United States in terms of culture and history. After all, it was home to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the first ever British settlement – Jamestown – was established here. The country’s oldest university – William and Mary – is also located here. The country’s largest black population by state is perhaps here. Virginia was also the capital of the Confederacy during the civil war. So in terms of culture and history, Virginia is the richest of all states in America. But it is regionalism which is at the heart of American life in general. Arguably, the cultural and political divide in America is based on region above all else. And the three regions which matter the most in America are the Northeast, the South, and the Midwest. Everything west of the Midwest is crook and thief territory in my humble opinion. They don’t even count. Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma, even California, for instance. They’re all crooks and thieves. Thus, what matters the most is regionalism in American life, and in turn, the basic regional divide is between the liberal northeast, the conservative south, and the rural independent Midwest.