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Once the Northern culture began to deteriorate, through several causes, their minds began to shrink. They used the sin of the South (slavery) against them, and have been in the process of trying to make the Blacks the subhumans they accuse Southerners of deeming them. By the way, using someone's sin to promote one's own heinous sin is the vilest thing one can do. They won the war, and now the minds of all Americans have been shrinking ever since. Their advocates on this forum show up the ugliness of those shrunken minds. Go to Jersey, go to St. Paul, go to Baja Jersey (Miami) and you see those small, withered minds, cussing people out in whiny, nasal voices because their boredom with life, due to their tiny, dysfunctional minds, makes them peevish and cranky.

More was at stake in that conflict than my Confederate fathers even realized, I am sure. I doubt they could clearly forsee the degradation caused by the triumph of the putrid Yankee culture.

That's a pretty good example of what turns people off about neo-confederate rants. You almost come to the point of some idea of a master race or a superior culture. Then there's the whole cultic dimension that's also scary. And you get so involved in maintaining Southern self-esteem that you subordinate everything, including stubborn historical facts, to it.

But it's not a question of North against South. The question is rather whether we are better off as one country or would better have been divided in 1860. Most Americans rightly agree that national unity has been a good idea. Most of us would gladly leave the war in the past and work for the best for our country in the present.

That's a pretty good example of what turns people off about neo-confederate rants.

Let's just say this confederate sypathizer is already himself turned off. I'm through trying to reason with the unreasonable. They already know all they care to know, and the Yankee culture of which I wrote cares nothing about anything but their own pathetic lives. They have proven themselves to me to not give a damn about our posterity. The cities are full of them, and they are flooding the South and enacting their collectivist, shallow-minded views.

And what's this "neo" stuff? What does it mean? Our families have always been Southern patriots - there's nothing "neo" about it. Neo-Nazis are a new brand of nazis. Neo-conservatives are a new brand of conservatives. This meaningless term neo-confederate is just something y'all like to throw around, because it has a negative ring to it.

But my words will have no meaning to you, because you won't them to, so I don't know why I'm spending my time like this.

And I have to say one more thing. No, the Southern culture is not perfect and never has been. No culture is. Yes, I DO consider it far superior to the Yankee culture, in every way, right down to their food.

One of the major causes of 9/11 is the widespread modern belief that no culture is any better than any other culture. Of course, no one really believes this, but one is supposed to feign belief in it, and chastise anyone who suggests that some cultures are better than others.