[KC Burke]

I guess my point is Chief, the article cites particulars in the eighties as precipitating this, names instances and individuals and in general increases the acrimony.

This is truly misleading in that the splits, divisions, peaceful alliances and the like go back to shortly after WWII, and that doesn't even account for the issues with the Southern Agrarians twenty years prior.

This means that the reader is misled, if he doesn't know the history. I don't mind that it takes a side. I don't mind that it gets personal as to individuals and instances. I do mind if it pretends that these individuals and instances precipitated a great division and misleads the reader.

[CWOJackson]

When the great divide occurred isn't of much interest to me. The fact that there is a great divide does. The fact is, the Paleocons are miles apart from the rest of Conservative America, getting down into the minutia of when and how is getting too far into the weeds for most people.