Our way of life is nothing less than the traits and attitudes--mores and values that, in healthy Middle American communities, link us to our families as well as our neighbors, and not so long ago connected us as much to our civic and political leaders as to the ordinary folk around us. In our traditional way of life it didn’t matter in the end whether you were plumber or teacher, salesman or preacher. In the days before the despotism of political correctness we had shared values—family, God and country, dignity and manners. But it was the PEOPLE living those values that actually linked us to millions of others throughout the land who shared, in one way or another, our heritage—our common blood and spirit—a heritage of like traditions and common biological inheritance that stretches back in time to the ice ages and extends today from Norway to South Africa, from the Urals to San Diego—and all the way to Australia and New Zealand.