When Daniel Patrick Moynihan was my senator, I would get his constituents’ newsletter. For years, he tried to speak of New Yorkers as “York staters.” NO doubt it has a pedigree–Moynihan was not the sort of man to make things up whimsically– but it seemed incredibly lame.
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Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.
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