A new citizen. Small-business owners. A high-school student. In Pennsylvania, the country’s fastest-growing electorate is diverse and divided.
A nonadmirer once described the writings of Thomas Carlyle as “the history of silence in thirty volumes by Mr. Wordy.” But Carlyle was a dry well next to the 3000-barrels-a-day prosifiers who regale us today. What ever happened to the simple declarative sentence? Now it can be told.
Support for Confederate symbols and monuments follows lines of race, religion, and education rather than geography.