Yankee clauses dashed [Local landowner REALLY didn't like yankees...]

It appears that the Northern invasion of the South is complete -- at least it is on a patch of land known as Delta Plantation in Jasper County.

There, a diehard rebel named Henry E. Ingram Jr. made his last stand against the onslaught of Yankees, only to be thwarted by a man from Long Island, N.Y., and now -- gasp -- a French Canadian.

Ingram promised to keep Yankees out of Delta Plantation in Jasper County when he bought 1,700 acres there in 1998. His resolve to keep them out still is strong, but the covenants he put on the land don't seem to have any teeth.

Those covenants did, however, scare Canadian-raised Bluffton resident Louise Legare a bit as she was close to signing a contract to buy a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on the land from Bluffton Home Builders.

The list of rules she got from the builders was missing the first pages, so she went to the Jasper County Courthouse to get the missing ones. There, she found the covenants, or rules, that Ingram demanded of buyers:

2. They could not have the last name Sherman (an obvious reference to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman).

3. And the land could not be sold or leased to those whose last names could be rearranged to spell Sherman.

Now, however, Legare and Bluffton Home Builders are working with Ingram's son, Ashley Ingram, to remove the covenants. The former Delta Plantation is on both sides of U.S. 17, just north of the Georgia state line.

"When (Legare) brought it to us, we all kind of had a good laugh," said Jim Hobbs, a partner in the home-building firm.

In fact, Legare is buying the land and home from Bill Cook, another partner in the company, who happens to be a native of Long Island, N.Y. No one at Bluffton Home Builders had seen the covenants before Legare found the missing pages, and no one has ever tried to enforce them, Hobbs said.

If Henry Ingram had his way, he still would keep Yankees off of the 1,700 acres he once owned. His holdings on the plantation have dwindled to 10 acres.

Ingram, now a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas, said his son and attorney, who are both local, should be looking out for his anti-northerner wishes now.

"Yankees destroy everything they have up North, then they come down here," Ingram said. "When they destroy everything (in the South), where are they going to move next? Another country?"

Legare, who grew up north of Montreal, figures her far-northern upbringing must be especially abhorrent to Ingram.

"I must be more of a Yankee," she said. "I'm the person he really doesn't want to live there."

Amazingly, Legare is a much better choice to own Southern land than a New Yorker, according to Ingram.

"French people are much better and more desirable than a Yankee," said Ingram, who once owned video-poker casinos in Jasper County. "They don't stick their noses in other people's business."

The same feature drew Legare and Ingram to the land -- nature. Ingram said he's seen Carolina panthers, bald eagles and fox squirrels on the land. It is that quiet beauty Legare is after.

"I was raised in a very nature-like environment," Legare said. "I think the nature is beautiful in South Carolina."

Ingram, who says he is leaving Texas for Costa Rica soon, cites the boorish manners of Yankees as one of his prime dislikes for them.

"They look down their little pointy noses at the people in the South because we are polite and nice to them," Ingram said. "They think people who are polite and nice are dumb."

Contact Jim Faber at 706-8137 or jfaber@islandpacket.com. To comment on this story, please go to islandpacket.com.

"once more, there are NO "neo-confederates"

The prime disciple of today's neo-rebel disinformation rants on again.

Your verbal rubbish this time is identical to previous gems such as 'There was no Civil War', or '200,000 blacks fought for Dixie's freedom'... and on and on. More insane neo-confederate revisionist propaganda.

Speaking of 'bigots', did you not state Klan/neo-Nazi top lawyer Kirk Lyons was a good friend of yours?

"The League of the South, founded in 1994 and counting some 9,000 members by 2001, is at the center of the racist neo-Confederate movement. Calling once again for Southern secession, the League's leaders say minorities are destroying the "Anglo-Celtic" (white) culture of the South. They oppose most non-white immigration and all interracial marriages. Founder Michael Hill, a former college professor, has called blacks "a deadly and compliant underclass" and has embraced well-known white supremacists such as North Carolina attorney Kirk Lyons."

You were saying .....?

Now the facts:

And this ...

How – and why – Pelican Publishing became both a local success story and a leading source of Neo-Confederate literature.

"Pelican Publishing is Milburn Calhoun, and Milburn Calhoun is Pelican Publishing.

This blending of the man and the company explains why Pelican publishes no serious literary fiction. The fiction section, which takes up less than two pages in Pelican’s 65-page backlist catalogue, offers only the most obscure fare. "I have always been looking for good novels, but most people do not write very good novels," says Calhoun. "The problem with fiction is that the writers think no one will read it, unless it’s full of sex. And I don’t see why they have to do that." Calhoun cites his Christian faith to explain his objection to "filthy words" on the printed page.

But more controversial than Calhoun’s disdain for the modern novelist’s predilection for sex is his interest in publishing books that seek to correct prevailing views of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Two Pelican titles in this category are The South was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy, and Southern by the Grace of God by Michael Andrew Grissom. New this past year are The Southern Nation: The New Rise of the Old South by R. Gordon Thornton and The Confederate Cookbook, Family Favorites from the Sons of Confederate Veterans edited by Lynda Moreau.

Each of these books displays a Confederate flag on its cover. The first three share in common a particular interpretation of history: the Confederacy was the true moral victor in the Civil War, the South was justifiably defending itself from invasion by a foreign power, and Southerners were unfairly punished in the aftermath of the war by a vengeful North. The books also stand on the assertion that the Civil War was not fought over slavery, but rather was a conflict between the South’s demand for state rights and the North’s emphasis on a stronger central government. The Southern Nation also advocates that the South should separate from the North all over again and form its own country – an opinion shared by the publisher.

"Oh, we would be much better off that way," concurs Calhoun.

These books have brought Pelican Publishing the distinction of being named a "Neo-Confederate" publisher on www.templeofdemocracy.com, a Web site devoted to following those who seek to resurrect the Confederacy’s damaged reputation. When he picked up one of Pelican’s Maverick travel guides, "Temple of Democracy" creator Edward Sebesta says he was as baffled as many people tend to be when they look over Pelican’s eclectic assortment of titles. "There is no way that I’d know that this was the same publisher who put out Southern by the Grace of God"."

Watch - whenever the truth is printed relating to the real neo-confederate agenda the despicable disciples of neo-confederate disinformation crew have the information pulled, or the thread closed - watch.

Any bets? :)

The census categorizes only urban and rural. Their criteria is solely population density (urban = more than 1000 persons per square mile, rural is pretty much everything else).

Unfortunately the census definition doesn't really fit well with the standard traditional definition of urban which is more of what most people think of when they hear the term and which mentions nothing about population.

The census definition allows a general area (for example a township or county) to be categorized as urban even if it mostly farm fields or woodlands. As long as there is an average population density of over 1000 people per square mile. Conversely a large industrial area with little real population can be designated as rural.

The census also makes no consideration for suburban, areas that have higher then 1000 person per square mile populations but that are not really anything akin to a city. For example, a square mile contains 640 acres of land. If you divided that into 2.5 acre parcels with a family of four living on each parcel, you would have a population density of greater than 1000 people per square mile. Now I don't think you would find too many people that think that one home per 2.5 square acres equals an "urban" landscape but the census thinks it is.

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