"Michael Kazin" is a professor of history at Georgetown University. He is co-editor of Dissent (American magazine)/Dissent magazine.

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Americans have wanted to move to places where the weather fit their clothes, as the old saying goes, where you could live an athletic life year-round.

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Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather.

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During Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson said we can fight them there or fight them here, but no one believed it. This time, there's more fear about what happens next.

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It's a war only because we've got the rhetoric of wartime.

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