State of Dixie - Redux

Author ^ | 7-17-2007 | Clint Johnson

[cripplecreek]

This Michigan yankee won’t call southerners any more racist than us northerners.

[billbears]

God Bless the CSA bump

[JamesP81]

This Michigan yankee won’t call southerners any more racist than us northerners.

The truth is that there are racist people all over. They're not really confined to any particular region.

Note that when I say 'racist', I'm talking about real racism, not the ultra lib PC definition of it.

[One Proud Son]

“The South Was Right” by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy

Also, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History” by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Very interesting and calls into question the teachings of every textbook in the American school system (which are all published in New York).

[jedward]

I don’t discriminate...I loathe all reportors the same.

[EdReform]

Ping

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The quote about "our ancestors are racists" really should be something like: "Outsiders to the South say our ancestors were racist slave owners so today's Southerners must be racist too."

I think the TV footage that was seen during the Civil Rights Era has more to do with that impression in northern minds.

The causes for The War for Southern Independence were much more complicated and numerous than the official government explanation of "The North wanted to free the South's slaves."

In what government documents is this "official government explanation" to be found?

[stainlessbanner]

Thanks for Dixie Pings!

[cripplecreek]

An old southern black woman once told me that she prefered the in your face racism of the pre civil rights days. It was out in the open and easily avoided.

She said that the racism in the north came with a smile.

[DirtyPigpen]

I think he meant the way the war is portrayed by every govm’t school lessen given about the subject. The war was about states rights. The right to keep & sell slaves was one of them. To make the war out to be about the profound & self sacrificing duty of the north to free all the slaves is a self promoting-PC crock of doodie. The north is/was a racist as some in the south.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Ill be watchin!

[afnamvet]

Southern Heritage, Southern Pride Bump

[stainlessbanner]

Hey Clint found the link for CSPAN-BookTV

I hope its broadcast on the website

[EdReform]

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why It Will Rise Again)

[lovecraft]

In what government documents is this "official government explanation" to be found?

Not in any gov't document, but I found it in every South Carolina public school history class from grade 3-12.

[One Proud Son]

Oh thanks, I didn’t know they made more books in that series.

[EdReform]

Welcome to Free Republic!

[EdReform]

Mr Johnson is the author. I’ve just started reading it.

[sodpoodle]

Having recently returned to the SC Lowcountry as a retiree, I surprisingly discover that the majority of my retiree neighbors are liberal fugitives from Florida, the mid-West and New England.

Their anti-Southern white biases are astonishing and their racist superior attitude toward Southern blacks is disgraceful.

Why are they here? Good housing prices, the climate, effective bug spray, and their humility (sarc/).