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Oct 15, 2026
Francis FukuyamaGUEST
Well, you know, our state did perform much better than it has been in recent years.
Francis FukuyamaGUEST
I think if you go back to the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s, you know, the state built Hoover Dam, TVA, electrified the Upper South, it built the interstate highway system, and then it put a man on the moon in eight years.
Francis FukuyamaGUEST
Those are all pretty amazing accomplishments.
Francis FukuyamaGUEST
So there was a point at which the American government could actually undertake these kinds of ambitious projects and complete them in a reasonable amount of time.
Sean GoudieGUEST
Um, again, one of the great kind of movements of, of, uh, radical politics in American history.
Sean GoudieGUEST
Was strongest in the Midwest and, but even especially in the, in the Upper South.
Sean GoudieGUEST
It really grew out of Texas.
Sean GoudieGUEST
And people should read, uh, David Griscom's really great book, The Myth of Red Texas, about, about some of this.
Shawn GudeGUEST
And the populist movement was, as you said, a primarily agrarian movement.
Shawn GudeGUEST
Um, again, one of the great kind of movements of, of, uh, radical politics in American history was strongest in the Midwest and, but even especially in the, in the Upper South.
Shawn GudeGUEST
It really grew out of Texas, and people should read, uh, David Griscom's really great book, The Myth of Red Texas, about, about some of this.
Shawn GudeGUEST
That's the populist movement.
speaker_1HOST
Absolutely.
speaker_1HOST
The domestic slave trade in the 1850s, particularly out of the Upper South like Virginia down to the Deep South, was a massive, highly calculated economic engine.
LernerHOST
Wasn't random at all.
speaker_1HOST
No.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And it is the context within which the Bell Witch story must be understood, even though, especially because, the voices of the enslaved people are almost entirely absent from the record.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The Bell family was part of this great migration, the Scots-Irish and English settlers who poured through the Cumberland Gap into the river valleys of Tennessee and Kentucky in the decades following the Revolution, displacing the Cherokee and other indigenous nations who had lived there for thousands of years, clearing the forests, building their cabins and churches and courthouses, and establishing the network of small agricultural communities that would define the character of the Upper South for the next two centuries.
speaker_0NARRATOR
John Bell acquired a large farm on the Red River, near what is now the town of Adams, Tennessee, roughly three hundred and twenty acres of bottomland and ridge, a substantial holding by any measure, enough to mark him as a man of means and ambition.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He was prosperous.
Damon EllisonHOST
They took out all the natives in the East.
Damon EllisonHOST
The domestic slave trade forcibly moved hundreds of thousands of enslaved people from the Upper South into the Deep South during the 19th century.
Damon EllisonHOST
Families were separated as people were sold from Virginia to Maryland into the expanding plantation economies in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas Imagine trying to organize or coordinate uprising under those conditions.
Damon EllisonHOST
Sounds pretty tough.
Diana ElderHOST
This will cover a lot of topics, including Connecticut records, Dana Leeds method, misattributed parentage, identity research, name change investigation, orphan children, DNA analysis, disappearing ancestors, vital records, social security records, church records, Banyan DNA, comparative timeline analysis, African American research, city directories, maps, and the fan club.
Diana ElderHOST
Yvonne is a professional genealogist accredited through ICAP-Gen in the Upper South region of the U.S., which includes the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina.
Diana ElderHOST
She brings expertise in DNA analysis, particularly in cases involving cousin marriages and Y-DNA research.
Diana ElderHOST
which helps break through genealogical brick walls.
Kenny TalaricoHOST
And yeah, I mean, there is something very, you know.
Kenny TalaricoHOST
quintessentially American about a sort of anti-intellectualism from a populist angle, right? I mean, Melville himself we're talking about as a Jacksonian Democrat, right? I mean, you know, there's sort of from the West, what we now might call the Midwest or the Upper South, like Missouri, is...
Kenny TalaricoHOST
there is something that would very much place something like a Huck Finn as being the everyday, you know, salt of the earth, you know, quote-unquote real Americans, whereas real Americans don't go on these soliloquies about fate and, you know, the nature of life and death and of free will.
Kenny TalaricoHOST
That's stuff that all the...
Trevor HubbsGUEST
I, I like food, I like cooking, I like, uh, especially with wild game and stuff.
Trevor HubbsGUEST
But two things for St. Louis is people can't quite place us as far as, like, are we in the Upper South? Are we in the Midwest?
Dan JohnsonHOST
Right.
Trevor HubbsGUEST
What are we doing here? But you can come to St.
Trevor HubbsGUEST
I, I like food, I like cooking, I like, uh, especially with wild game and stuff.
Trevor HubbsGUEST
But two things for St. Louis is people can't quite place us as far as, like, are we in the Upper South, are we in the Midwest?
Dan J.HOST
Right.
Trevor HubbsGUEST
What are we doing here? But you can come to St.
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