You spoke very good logic right out of the gate
There is a cadre of south bashers here
They work in concert and have since 99/2000
Some are same poster and some have been exposed as agitators trying the make the forum racist looking
Many have been zotted as libs
If they were not here there would be little talk of this stuff....well I till Charleston when the purge started
Some of them were once busted as a Maryland GOPe black group
Others sound like Beckites
Or NRO sorts
Their code word is neoconfederate which was a word I never heard till here 15 years ago
It’s a smear on Paleos basically ....
Most of these folks are caught sooner or latter being soft on homosexual agenda or abortion and get zotted by JR
But they sneak back
That was a brief history for you
I salute you
Sorry, but no.
There are no "south bashers" here, not one.
All of us love the South, most have lived there, some were born there.
I may be typical -- half my family is Southern and over many years I've lived in eight different Southern states, today in a part of rural Pennsylvania where you drive through many small towns and see the US and Confederate Battle Flags flying side by side.
We love the South and we love Rebels here.
But we also love the old Union and don't like to see it trashed or lied about.
That's why we're here.
wardaddy: "Their code word is neoconfederate which was a word I never heard till here 15 years ago."
Without exception that I've seen, people like yourself object to being called "neo-confederates" -- I'm pretty sure that's because the term is so easily shortened to "neo-cons", and that is, well, just beyond unacceptable.
So I've not seen that term "neo-confederate" on these threads in many years.
But almost nobody objects to the totally accurate term "pro-Confederate" and so that's what I've used whenever some such word is needed.
wardaddy: "Most of these folks are caught sooner or latter being soft on homosexual agenda or abortion and get zotted by JR."
Ouch, that hurts.
But I would note, with respect, that for every pro-Union poster here who was eventually banned, there is at least one old pro-Confederate poster who no longer shows up to vomit his foul language and hatred of all things good & decent.
So my impression is that JR is very fair & balanced in his judgments on who is, or is not, a credit to his Free Republic.
Wardaddy, I will always be a proud Southerner, and that includes our history. I never hear anyone say they American history needs to apologised for, wiped out of the textbooks, etc, because of the Trail Of Tears and other immoralities which happened under the aegis of the American flag. The South has historically and traditionally been the last bastion of conservatism, including the social issues. I am proud of that. I am proud of our ancestors, a tiny percentage of whom were slave owners, who fought against the invasion of our homeland and our right to self-determination. I see no distinction in our war against Lincoln’s tyranny and the Revolutionary War against King George-the America of Revolutionary times wasn’t perfect either, but that didn’t make their fight for freedom any less legitimate. What I have never understood, is why the North wanted so badly to hold us into the Union, when they have had nothing but contempt and opposition to our conservatism ever since, immediately after and to this day. We just want to go our own way and be left to do it in peace, but that’s never been good enough for the descendents of the Puritans, who have a historical reputation of forcing everyone within their reach to conform. Today’s left are merely their secular humanist heirs.