And it was in this heightened atmosphere that Washington, under fire in his second term as president for having made himself into "a quasi-king," announced that he was retiring, thereby declaring "that his deepest allegiances, like those of his critics, were thoroughly republican".
Though in his youth the West Side was a troubled part of the city, he, like many of its residents, past and present, feels a deep allegiance to it.
Del Rey relocated to California in her mid-twenties, and it's now challenging to find a promotional photograph of her that does not, in one way or another, suggest a deep allegiance to the state.
The reasons for black people's deep allegiance to the Democratic party aren't complicated.
Too many leaders on both sides of the aisle have a deeper allegiance to private interests than to the public they are sworn to represent.
Southerners claim a deep allegiance to the good old United States of America but ironically celebrate their ancestors' efforts to dissolve the very union of states whose flag they now so proudly fly.
Now would be a good time for the president to reaffirm that position and for Democrats in Congress to press for its enactment, if only to continue to highlight the huge contradiction between Republicans' alleged concern for working families and their deeper allegiance to free market theology.
It's built on deep allegiances and cutthroat margins, and its inner workings, especially in Buck's stories about his own McAllister clan, are full of intrigue and successionary drama: fistfights, lawsuits, power struggles, and disinheritances; raging, intemperate fathers and sullen, rebellious sons.
