The Spectre of Lincoln In New York Politics
By Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D. August 14, 2020
To escape the highest rent district in the nation, rich millennials, multi-millionaires and even Wall Street bankers are fleeing New York for more affordable states. Others have retreated to second homes in states that are not locked down. With few customers during the lockdown, many posh businesses and restaurants faced with ongoing astronomical costs to do business in the Big Apple have abandoned the state.
Prior to the 1960s nearly everyone understood that the tariff was the main issue between the Northern Yankees who wanted a very high protectionist tariff and Southerners who wanted the country to be a free zone with limited import tariffs. Everyone also understood that slavery had nothing to do with Lincoln’s launch of a military invasion on his own country.
As I saw the Christmas traditions to which I was accustomed being purposely ripped from our nation, I began to wonder about how our ancestors had observed Christmas. What was it like in the American colonies and then the new nation? Was Christmas ever like the Victorian cards that we send or the heart warming stories we read over and over each season?
Lincoln Day events (sometimes Lincoln-Reagan Day), named after Abraham Lincoln, are held annually in February or March. These are the primary annual celebrations and fundraisers for the Republican Party. 
The tragic shooting of nine Christians in a Charleston, South Carolina church was a horrific crime by a deranged man. Rather than allowing the community to unite and find healing as they mourned their dead, predictably the liberal media could not let a good crisis go to waste and pounced on an unrelated issue to continue their agenda to divide the nation from within.