I have seen lost causers lament, “The south shall rise again!” and remarked on several occasions that they should pry their eyes a bit wider open so that they could notice that the south HAS risen - and doing comparatively well (all things considered).
If they can see past their small-minded southern bigotry and look at dispassionately at the true indicators they would see that it was leftism - not “northern-ism” that killed much of the rust-belt. The same leftism (or progression-ism or liberalism if you will) that threatens the new south - not northerners. Y’all ain’t immune and the notion that it comes from some sort of “norther invasion” of the south bringing leftist views to the pure south is simply nonsense. Your enemy lives amongst you, and they were there long before any damn yankees moved in.
“Ironically its’ spirit is being reborn in the desire of all Americans to throw off the shackles of an ever more burdensome Federal Government.”
There’s no irony there because it was the southern slavers who sought to expand the burdensome federal government by imposing the Peculiar Institution upon the rest of the nation. The irony was that southerners rebelled against the homeland only to impose an even greater burden upon themselves.
“Ironic in that I have seen “Yankees” sounding like the Southerns of 1860...”
Now that IS ironic - and sad as well.
The “leftism” you speak of IS COMING from the North and the Far Western US, and not just to the South but to the Midwest and such as well. We do have Yankees who move here wanting to “change” us backwards Southerners and they find more than a few wistful local Utopians to cheer them on. Indeed we have a paper here in Jackson that is full of their tripe. Fortunately the vast majority of folks that move here love what they see and fit right in rather quickly with the bulk of us who tend to be on the conservative side. Pure, no but old American values seem to be holding faster here than elsewhere this day and age.
I won't even begin to address the South wanting to expand the fed. That Hokum is put to bed by history rather well. But your side "won" so of course you are correct.
“Now that IS ironic - and sad as well.”
Why is it sad, are you a fan of Government over reach?