Do you mean pejorative labels like, "1860 insane Fire Eater Democrats"? Or "Confederate slavocrats"? Or "KKK Democrats"?
Do those terms bother you? Do you take them as personal insults?
If so, can you explain why?
As for "self righteous", I am exactly the same degree of "self righteous" as wardaddy & every other Lost Cause defender here.
Indeed, how insanely self righteous do you have to be to post here defending the indefensible and making excuses for the inexcusable, as opposed to simply posting facts and defending the truth?
wardaddy: "A sizable swath of neocons do just that and often but not always they dovetail with nevertrumpism and now the Uke war
In other words weak on culture and worship the Republican Party"
Yeah, I've seen no "never-Trumpers" posting on Free Republic, and I've never looked at other sites to find them.
As for Ukraine, setting aside certain Russian bots in St. Petersburg troll farms, most FReepers are conflicted about Ukraine -- on the one hand we recognize Vlad the Invader's naked aggression should be stopped, but on the other hand we don't trust the Biden administration to send the right kinds or amounts of aid without also corrupting the people we're trying to help.
But none of this has anything to do with the Lost Cause of the Confederacy.
As for "worship the Republican party", that's an odd accusation coming from someone who's taken up residence at the altar of the Lost Cause, and who equates any disagreement with Lost Cause Orthodoxy as an assault on, "the South".
The truth is, many of us here share the priorities of Sirius-XM Patriot host Andrew Wilkow who says he's "individual patriot first, conservative second and Republican third".
I think that pretty much describes everyone posting here, including me.
Your pejorative label, "neocon" describes nobody I know of.
wardaddy: "Your favorite tack is labeling those who disagree about our history here as neoconfederates and pro slavery
Defending our culture here brings it out in you"
No, many years ago I learned that, for some inexplicable reason, y'all don't like being called "neo-Confederates", but you have no problem with being called "pro-Confederates", and most of y'all don't object to the term "Lost Cause of the Confederacy", or being called "pro-Lost Cause", or even, "Lost Causers", though I have seen occasional push-back on "Lost Causers".
As for your "defending our culture", if by that you mean slavery, then you deserve whatever criticisms you receive.
But, once you exclude slavery from "our culture", then nobody here has ever criticized "Southern culture" -- far from it, there is much to be praised in traditional Southern values and hospitality.
wardaddy: "Scratch the surface there is often a personal reason your obsession
It’s fine but you’re simply not morally superior to anyone here because you fixate on racial redress and see slavery as this obsession"
In psychology, what you're doing here is called "projection" and it's a favorite political trick of Democrats, which they first learned from the Old Soviets -- they take whatever evil is in their own hearts and project it onto their opponents.
Nobody posting on Free Republic is doing any of what you claim.
Instead, all we've ever done is try to correct Lost Cause Lies with actual historical facts, reasons and truth.
But y'all don't care about any of that, do you?