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.
Thanks BroJoeK.
You should take a gander at wardandy’s page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~wardaddy/
He’s updated it and it’s a hoot. The unintentional irony is in his puerile insults and slanders against FReepers with whom he disagrees, all the while calling us “bashers”. I guess self-awareness isn’t his strong suit.
Like the left’s misuse of the race card, he has worn out any cachét of “south-basher” until it’s only meaning is “anyone who disagrees with me”.
Sad really.
Pathetically sad.
I have Highlander ancestors who often killed one another for reasons that no one can even remember anymore. And, it's just as well that we can't remember a lot of that nonsense because a lot of us are here now because our own people made it impossible for many of our ancestors to continue living in a place that they thought was home. In the end, clans became little more than a reason to sell t-shirts to ignorant tourists.
However we got here, I think we're all very lucky to be here. If there was another country that I liked better, I'd be living there now. We're supposed to complain about this or that, but I notice it when people don't leave.
As for wardeddy, I don't know much about him, but he does have a beautiful family. And, what can be more important than that?
So, as we abuse one another over nothing, let's try to remember to keep smiling. I'm old enough now to know that it doesn't much matter what any of us think. We're just lucky to be here.
ANYONE WHO DOESNT BELIEVE ME THAT DEES IS DOING THE WORK OF SOUTH BASHERS HERE NEED ONLY CHECK THE POSTING HISTORY OF THOSE ON MY LIST
ANYONE DOESNT BELIEVE JR ROUTINELY ZOTS SOUTH BASHERS HERE WHO SLIP UP AND EXPOSE THEMSELVES
I CAN GIVE EXAMPLES
SHERMAN LOGAN BEING THE LATEST AND I SPOKE UP FOR HER
SOUTHERN WHITES ARE THE LAST REDOUBT IN AMERICA ALONG WITH SPOTS IN THE MIDWEST AND MOUNTAIN STATES
THOSE WHO WISH TO DESTROY OUR HERITAGE ARE DESTROYING AMERICA IN THE PROCESS
DO NOT BELIEVE THE LIARS YOU SEE ON THIS THREAD
LIARS WHO NEVER EVER GIVE ANY PERSONAL REFERENCE