Les états désunis: que célèbre-t-on le 4 juillet?

Comme beaucoup d'observateurs, j'a noté le patriotisme de nos voisins du sud à de nombreuses reprises. Mais ce patriotisme se décline différemment selon les régions du pays et le phénomène n'est pas récent. Je vous laisse ce petit topo du POLITICO Magazine à la veille de la fête nationale américaine.

 "Welcome to the Disunited States of America. Nominally we are still a single nation, and average Americans still feel a surge of patriotism as they raise their eyes skyward to watch the rockets’ red glare at July 4th parties across the country. And of course the idea of a nation of very different kinds of people united only by a common passion for freedom and democracy—E Pluribus Unum—has always been a part of our self-identity. Yet in recent weeks a number of social and political issues—the Charleston slaughter, made more horrific by a vicious online manifesto in which the alleged killer declared he hates the American flag; history-changing Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and gay marriage that elicited bitter exchanges even among the justices themselves; and heated arguments over marijuana legalization—have highlighted how much remains unresolved in our national conversation."

  http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/july-4-disunited-states-119707.html?hp=t1_r#.VZZ2Pvl_Oko