Posted on 05/09/2006 8:33:28 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
WASHINGTON -- Back in the 2004 presidential primaries, when Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, suggested that Democrats should be competing for the votes of young men with Confederate flags on their pickups, politicians from both parties rushed to accuse him of repeating a vile Southern stereotype: the redneck with antiquated views on race. < SNIP >
''Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday," quipped Georgia Senator Zell Miller, the conservative Democrat who supported President Bush. ''Sure, we drive pickups, but on the back of those pickups, you see a lot of American flags. It's the most patriotic region in the country. And you see hard-working individuals that want to instill values in their children, and you see a very, very strong work ethic in the South. He doesn't understand the South." < SNIP >
Many Southerners express outrage at Northern depictions of Confederate-loving Southerners, even as they accede to the idea that the flag has a place in their regional heritage. Only those inside the Southern family circle can truly understand the region's complicated relationship with its own history.< SNIP >
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It's been over for a while now.
Places like Vermont, New Hampshire and much of California are becoming "estranged" from the rest of our great country.
I believe that Zell Miller will endorse a certain Southerner in 2008.
Which one?
An Italian American writer from Boston wants to explain to us how we are.
That sorta defines why Yankees bug us sometimes.
ping
Slavery was intertwined with the Union too, but everyone seems to ignore that point. Slavery was LEGAL in the Union states of Delaware, Maryland (forced into the Union by locking up politicians who dissented), Kentucky and Missouri.
The great Emancipation Proclamation did not free ONE SLAVE in the "northern" slave states.
Yep... it was all about slavery... at least that's what we've all been told all these years and taught by those same teachers who told us that we should be Democrats because they are "for the people." Yeah... I believe it. < /sarcasm>
All the democrats have to do to get all those pickup driving confederate flag waving types is to admit that They (the democrats) invented The Confederate flag and all the historic uses of it.
We real southerners, find ya'll embarassin, kinda like a bunch of redheaded idiot cousins we keep behind the woodshed.
If you want to see a true redneck, stop my where I work here in Kentucky. One of our managers, David, a black guy from southern Mississippi, has a Confederate flag hanging in the back window of his truck. When he is asked about it, he explains that he knows of at least two of his ancestors who volunteered to serve in the Confederate Army, with one of them earning a commendation for valor at the Battle of Yazoo City. He says that right or wrong, that flag is part of his heritage and he will honor that legacy for the rest of his life.
Besides, being Southern is more than a license plate on a truck, it's a way of life. It's an honor.
Amen brother!!!!!
"Our" republic?
I thought you disowned everything that had to do with The US government.
Nelson Winbush has a similar story - his grandady served the CSA proudly and received a burial years later with full honors. General Lee was so found of "duty" and "honor", I think many of us uphold those traits today (similar to David). What better way to preserve the American culture?
The left will tell you that there were no black Confederates, and there are some here on FR who actually buy into that same politically-correct and history revisionist stance. The Union won the war and was able to write and revise history. As a result, half of our country was demonized. What a damn shame!
They'll be along shortly to teach us all a history lesson, I'm sure.
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