Thank God for common sense and conviction! The "new" Georgia flag is ugly and souless.
Posted on 11/26/2002 2:36:03 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
Hell fire, y'all! White folks done voted to take Georgia back 40 years!
Well, that's it. The (white) people of Georgia have spoken, and they've told us that the confederate flag is more important than anything else in the world. And make no mistake, folks -- as far as the governor's race was concerned, it was all about the state flag. Angry rural white people turned out at the polls in numbers not seen since the days of Lester Maddox to vent their fury at that danged ol' Liberal King Rat Roy Barnes.
What you heard on Nov. 5 was not a Republican earthquake. It was the sound of progressive men like William B. Hartsfield and Robert Woodruff and Charles Weltner rolling over in their graves. For the first time in a generation, the reins of Georgia government have been handed over to a wide-eyed hick who proudly panders to the neo-confederate crowd, a shadowy and racist gang of baccer-chewin' morons most city folks had believed to be extinct, if not permanently powerless.
And now these clueless crackers are running amok, planning to embarrass us all by restoring the confederate emblem to the state flag and transforming zombie-like Democratic state Senators into right-wing Republicans by the busload. And it's all being orchestrated by Ralph Reed. God help us.
History books say that Eugene Talmadge, the legendary race-baiting Georgia governor, often boasted of the fact that he'd "never carried a county with a streetcar." It was a pretentious rejection of modernity, as if being backwards was somehow a worthy attribute. But the Talmadge following was comprised of an ignorant gaggle of bumpkins and Klan-affiliated rednecks, so I guess there is a legitimate comparison to what happened to Georgia on Nov. 5. Just like "Ol' Gene," Perdue's victory came from an overwhelmingly rural base.
I am old enough to remember the Georgia countryside in the late 1960s, when "Maddox Country" signs were plentiful. I'd foolishly believed for most of my life that those days of racist politics in Georgia were long gone. When "Sonny Country" signs bearing the confederate flag began popping up earlier this year, it worried me -- but not seriously. "Surely we have progressed beyond such foolishness," I said to myself.
Well, I was wrong, by God. Yee-haw!
Of course, suburban Republicans are now spinning their asses off, swearing to anyone who will listen that Perdue's election had nothing to do with race or the flag, but was actually due to Barnes' alleged "arrogance," a charge that anyone who has met the governor knows to be ridiculous. But try as they might to muddy the waters, establishment Republicans cannot dispute the shocking and disturbing videotape of Perdue supporters waving confederate flags on election night as the governor-elect mocked the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nor can they deny the backwater election demographics, or the legions of gloating boneheads from racist groups like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans and the League of the South, all of them taking credit for Perdue's victory.
Yes friends, the sleeping giant redneck has awakened, and he don't give a damn about what uppity colored folks think about the confederate flag. He's out stomping across Georgia like some kind of mutant yokel Godzilla, wreaking humiliation and destruction upon our hard-earned image as an enlightened place to do business.
To their credit, Democrats didn't play the race card during the election. And if they had, they would've probably been screwed anyway. It's tough to battle against a race-bating enemy like state GOP chairman Reed, who once said, "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag."
Reed and his Republican nightriders may have lynched Barnes -- but at what price? This klutzy clan has painted itself into a corner: If they put the flag to a vote, the state will pay mightily. If they don't, the rednecks will revolt, and the world may be subjected to a petulant spectacle of white-trash madness not seen since Sherman lit a match.
Either way, Georgia's hard-won image as the progressive leader of the south will suffer.
Jeff Berry is buying up confederate flags as fast as he can -- and burning them.
If that is to indeed be the case; a thorny issue will be the amount of northerners transitioning to the south over the past 10-25 years. This trend will not decrease anytime soon.
If any real seperation were to ever happen (and it won't), it would be pockets that go and major cities will not be in hardly any of those pockets.
We will remain one country; albeit with seperate histories, accents, and styles of cooking depending on the region and/or family.
There is nothing wrong with that, is there?
Actually, after seeing numerous posts of your hate, we just as soon you not.
But there's such a thing as strategery here. No need to do a Pickett's Charge when we can make like Bedford Forrest and let the media get complacent, then sneak up on 'em, whack 'em, and live to fight another day.
It may take longer than 60-90 days to get a referendum started. There are serious legal issues to be contended with (the scope of a referendum is somewhat limited under GA law). So long as Perdue is working on the issue, if I were running the SCV I would gently and privately prod him from time to time, but not publicly and not too vigorously. Rome wasn't built in a day.
(Not only am I a 3rd generation Daughter, I won the UDC essay prize my senior year in high school. Our family was well represented in the conflict, with four great-grandfathers in the Army of Tennessee. One was the Commander of the Eufaula AL camp of the UCV. Mom's side immigrated from Scotland to Augusta GA just as the war started, and so they missed the actual fighting - but not the ensuing excitement.)
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"I'll say again that based on what I knew in 1992, I would vote for Bill Clinton ten times out of ten before I would vote for George Bush Sr." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
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"As you doubtless know, the separation of powers in that Pact with the Devil we call our Constitution, gives only Congress the right to raise and spend money." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
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"Nationalism and socialism are opposites." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
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"First of all, the AJC [Atlanta Journal-Constitution] is -not- an "ultra-leftist" newspaper, and you know it." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/13/02
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"I feel that admiration for Reagan has rightly diminished over time, and rightly so." - WhiskeyPapa, 11/15/02
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Walt
Add that remark you made about Lincoln's campaign promises too.
Walt
Thank God for common sense and conviction! The "new" Georgia flag is ugly and souless.
May I ask which one?
Walt
That's a bit harsh, isn't it? Tyrants don't gain office through open elections, they achieve office through the work of a small group of men. Kind of like the way Jefferson Davis was appointed president. Tyrants don't retain office by running against opponents in elections, they rig elections so they're the only person on the ballot. Like Jefferson Davis did running unopposed in the fall of 1861. Tyrants aren't constrained by Constitutions and courts, they ignore Constitutions and the court system all together. Like Jefferson Davis did when he refused to staff an entire branch of the confederate government required by law. So I think that if you look closely enough at the facts then you would see that there was someone who fits the description of a tyrant much more completely than did Abe Lincoln.
Didn't JD threaten to have troops fire on a crowd of hungry women?
Walt
This came later:
"Mary Boykin Chesnut attended a party given by Varina Davis for the elite ladies of Richmond society in which the table fare was described as "gumbo, ducks and olives, supreme de volaille, chickens in jelly, oysters, lettuce salad, chocolate jelly cake, claret soup, champagne, &c&c&c." (31 January 1864 diary entry in Woodward's MARY CHESNUT'S CIVIL WAR)."
The CSA was -such- a bad joke.
Walt
Is it true that you hold the Confederate flag in contempt, that it and it's supporters are only worthy of derision, and because of their support for the Confederate flag, that they and the flag itself are deserving of contempt and worthy of abuse?
It it true that you hold that the right of lawful, legal, unilateral secession does not exist, that the political bonds cannot be severed, and especially that the right to self-government cannot be extended to a group that condones slavery and practices the same? That a government predicated on such a foundation is not only immoral but also unlawful, and their prior allegiance cannot be rescinded, regardless of any alleged breaches of their compact?
Mr. Lincoln doesn't need me to defend.
Walt
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