Hype for the Future 67/284: The Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts (Express Edition)

Introduction

Established in 1620 by the early Pilgrim settlers of the Mayflower along the Plymouth Bay, the Plymouth community has largely been identified by the Wampanoag communities nearby, as well as the Patuxet of the region proper. The forefathers of the paternal figure of the modern United States of America, as opposed to the maternal Jamestown, are of material significance to the national intellectual culture and associated traditions, including the push for compulsory education and access to higher educational institutions (colleges and universities), many of which are scattered throughout the Yankee areas of the nation.

Influenced by Plymouth

Even though the Plymouth city proper contains no native colleges, universities, or otherwise higher educational institutions, the following colleges and universities may be most influenced by the Plymouth/New England style of beliefs:

• Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
• Yale University (New Haven, CT)
• Brown University (Providence, RI)
• Dartmouth College (Dartmouth, NH)
• Columbia University (New York, NY)
• Princeton University (Trenton, NJ)
• Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
• University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
• Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
• Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
• Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
• Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
• Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
• Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
• Hampshire College (Amherst, MA)
• Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
• Smith College (Northampton, MA)
• UMass Amherst (Amherst, MA)
• Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
• Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
• Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
• Colby College (Waterville, ME)
• Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
• Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
• Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
• Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
• Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
• Augsburg University (Minneapolis, MN)
• Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)

While numerous additional colleges and universities could also be added to the list of institutions based on the Plymouth model, the above institutions are typically identified as the most purely Yankee of Yankee institutions, regardless of physical location in New England or even in the Northeastern United States.

Locally within Plymouth

Within the City of Plymouth is the seasonal ferry access to the Town of Provincetown at the end of Cape Cod, which in turn also provides seasonal ferry access to the City of Boston further north. Along the Warren Cove are the Plimoth Patuxet Museums, containing the household of William Brewster and the Plimoth Patuxet Crafts Center. The Plymouth Long Beach is located across Route 3A and along the cove, with the area further north along the coast home to the National Monument to the Forefathers.

The Pilgrim Memorial State Park is largely identified as a national icon, yet maintained specifically by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and typically home to Mayflower II, a replica of the original Mayflower of the Forefathers of America.

Hype for the Future 32/284: Virginia, the Prom State

Preamble

Virginia, the birthplace of the nation, contains a lengthy history that is derived from the implications of slave labor and traditional social hierarchy. Numerous historical figures, from the beginnings of Jamestown to the colonial era at Williamsburg and throughout the Tidewater region, contain large-scale plantations associated with the aristocracy. The aristocratic social roles of the past were very different from what society allows to be considered social roles in the modern day, yet the traditional social hierarchies are often still largely enforced by way of culture, even if not strictly so.

The Promenade

Everything about the Commonwealth of Virginia, especially the traditional Tidewater and Piedmont areas, is largely associated with different types of formal events with traditional meaning, whether in derivation from debutante balls that had historically depended on binaries that are often antiquated today; particularly strict enforcement of traditional social roles, scripts, and hierarchies; or numerous additional categories of events. Today, the roles remain enforced socially, rather than legally (in most cases), yet political tension continues to exist both for–and against–such roles. Unfortunately, economic factors are resulting in the apparent dissolution of prom and prom cultural traits in particular.

Presidential and High Families

Several families in the modern-day Tidewater region continue to enforce the codes of prom every day, including living relatives, direct and collateral, of the Washington, Custis, Lee, Tayloe, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Tyler families, just to name a few. While the vast majority of the national population is capable of living in a modern society, most are also living under hostile working conditions often considered comparable to the moral equivalent of “wage slavery.”

Hype for the Future 14/284: Mama y Papa, the Characteristics of the Thirteen Colonies and the present United States

According to novaTopFlex, the Commonwealths of Virginia and Massachusetts are truly opposed in their origin stories toward a United States of America. The United States would begin with the Old Dominion (State), the Commonwealth of Virginia, maternal in literally giving birth to a proud and glorious nation while also largely being blamed for lingering societal problems in our national identity. Only slightly later would the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies be settled, and their cultural traits are very paternal, fathering our modern United States of America. While migration between the North and the South of the United States was initially strikingly rare, in numerous communities Yankee and Southern influences are quickly blending in within numerous regions.