Blood and Soil Aren’t What Binds America Together
IdeasBlood and Soil Aren’t What Binds America TogetherIf you don’t believe in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, celebrating it is difficult.By Anne ApplebaumWin McNamee / GettyJuly 1, 2026, 7:20 AM ET ShareSave As he reached the end of his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in 2024, J. He began to speak of a cemetery in Kentucky where five generations of his family are buried, and where he hopes he and his children will be buried too. The cemetery matters to him because the bones in that graveyard—some belonging, he said, to people born “around the time of the Civil War”—represent a concrete reality, a homeland, a place that he will defend.
- ▪IdeasBlood and Soil Aren’t What Binds America TogetherIf you don’t believe in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, celebrating it is difficult.By Anne ApplebaumWin McNamee / GettyJuly 1, 2026, 7:20 AM ET ShareSave As he reached th
- ▪He began to speak of a cemetery in Kentucky where five generations of his family are buried, and where he hopes he and his children will be buried too.
- ▪The cemetery matters to him because the bones in that graveyard—some belonging, he said, to people born “around the time of the Civil War”—represent a concrete reality, a homeland, a place that he will defend.
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IdeasBlood and Soil Aren’t What Binds America TogetherIf you don’t believe in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, celebrating it is difficult.By Anne ApplebaumWin McNamee / GettyJuly 1, 2026, 7:20 AM ET ShareSave As he reached the end of his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in 2024, J. D. Vance’s tone became more intimate. He began to speak of a cemetery in Kentucky where five generations of his family are buried, and where he hopes he and his children will be buried too. The cemetery matters to him because the bones in that graveyard—some belonging, he said, to people born “around the time of the Civil War”—represent a concrete reality, a homeland, a place that he will defend.
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