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The Confederate Vote
GOPUSA.com ^ | November 17, 2003 | James A. Bowden

Posted on 11/18/2003 6:07:31 AM PST by stainlessbanner

Who are these Confederate voters that Vermonter Howard Dean wants to represent? Is Jefferson Davis on the ballot again? I thought he was dead - along with the Confederate States of America. Hey, I'm a Southerner, why didn't I get the memo? Duh, Dean was just being 'hisself', a Yankee Liberal, and describing voters as he sees people - divided by race, class and gender(s). What a hoot. Liberals imagine identity politics fit real people. Dean should listen to Yellow Dawg Democrat Zell Miller.

Confederate Voter is the wrong name. The Democrats covet the White Southern Voter. True, the White Southerner majority's ancestors were Confederates, but that provides the wrong connotation - slavery, segregation and racism - that doesn't fit the present and the future. The South is different from the rest of the country in significant measures, but the distinction isn't 'Confederate', it's simply 'The South'. Yankees and Liberals just don't get it. Although, Dean stumbled over truth when he talked down to Southerners to get over "race, guns, God and gays." Behind 'race, guns, God and gays' are issues based on values.

The South is about deep-fried shared values, history, and identity. Better universities have courses on Southern culture. Psychologists can test for regional attitude and behavior differences. The differences matter when Southerners vote. If only the Liberals could understand that complex thoughts - not easy divisions of race, class and gender(s) - reside, simultaneously, in the heads of most Southerners. Liberals shouldn't forget that Southern culture encourages a fierce passion for ideas held as right. Over 300,000 dead Yankees learned that lesson.

Here are some ideas held in common:

The Democrats can con Southern voters like Bill Clinton did. But, the Democrats are on the wrong side of ACW II (the Great U.S. Culture War, 1962-TBD) for the South. A few factors can change that:

As a Republican, I'm glad that Dean and the Democrats think talking slowly means you're stupid. As a man actually named 'Bubba' all my life, I'm proud to be disdained by any non-Southerner - and non-Conservative, non-Family, anti-Evangelical Christian - 'youse guys'.

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James Atticus Bowden has specialized in inter-disciplinary long range 'futures' studies for over a decade. He is employed by a Defense Department contractor for the Future Combat Systems. He is a retired United States Army Infantry Officer. He is a 1972 graduate of the United States Military Academy and earned graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University. He holds two elected Republican Party offices in Virginia.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; confederate; confederateflag; confederatevote; dean; democrat; dixie; dixielist; gop; vote
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"Confederate flag wavers are 'not a group that votes very much of the time. Or if they did, they wouldn't think that a New England Democrat would represent them,' said Earl Black, a professor of political science at Rice University."
("Democrats Rethink Southern Strategy", LA Times, 16 Nov, 2003, John Johnson)
1 posted on 11/18/2003 6:07:31 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: *dixie_list; BSunday; PeaRidge; RebelBanker; PistolPaknMama; SC partisan; l8pilot; Gianni; ...
>>incoming<<
2 posted on 11/18/2003 6:08:05 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
The people who want to suppress the Cross of St. Andrew want to suppress the Cross of Jesus.

BTTT - got it in one!

3 posted on 11/18/2003 6:15:09 AM PST by Tax-chick (Some people say that Life is the thing, but I prefer reading.)
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To: stainlessbanner
Good article.
4 posted on 11/18/2003 6:18:29 AM PST by Vigilantcitizen
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To: stainlessbanner
Yet, the irony is how Southern values - White and Black are so close - united more by culture than divided by race.

Finally, somebody gets it!

5 posted on 11/18/2003 6:28:21 AM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: stainlessbanner
Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful stuff. It's so clear, so obvious to anybody who's really taken the time to examine the South, or lived here for an extended period. And the Dim Dummies STILL won't get it.

}:-)4
6 posted on 11/18/2003 6:32:30 AM PST by Moose4 ("The road goes on forever, and the party never ends." --Robert Earl Keen)
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To: stainlessbanner; Ff--150
We are Americans first. We are Federalists who believe in the Constitution as it was intended, not as it has become with the Judicial Oligarchy and Federal Behemoth. We don't want to be ruled by the U.N. or anybody else. We don't give a damn what foreigners think of us. And, frankly, my dear, we don't give a damn what Yankees think of us (and that really bothers them).

He must be a Freeper.

7 posted on 11/18/2003 6:35:39 AM PST by 4CJ (Come along chihuahua, I want to hear you say yo quiero taco bell. - Nolu Chan, 28 Jul 2003)
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To: stainlessbanner
Thanks, amigo, good article!

Your Humble Servant...
8 posted on 11/18/2003 6:37:33 AM PST by RebelBanker (Deo Vindice)
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To: stainlessbanner
If only the Liberals could understand that complex thoughts - not easy divisions of race, class and gender(s) - reside, simultaneously, in the heads of most Southerners.

The problem with liberals is that they think that talking slowly equates thinking slowly when sometimes means that we are just thinking about what we are going to say.

9 posted on 11/18/2003 6:40:42 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: stainlessbanner
The best and most succinct analysis of our South I've read lately.
10 posted on 11/18/2003 6:45:31 AM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: stainlessbanner
"We are Conservatives based on Convictions. We are not loyal to any party, as much as to our principles." Amen Brother!
11 posted on 11/18/2003 6:46:02 AM PST by HELLRAISER II (Give us another tax break Mr. President)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"The problem with liberals is that they think that talking slowly equates thinking slowly..."

Being "country" don't mean "dumb"....

One of my favorite Southern-isms.

12 posted on 11/18/2003 6:47:20 AM PST by lovecraft
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I'll tell you something funny I noticed. I've been in the south now for 4 years (almost have my redneck badge). I'm a pretty devoted republican and proud USN. (stars and bars on my cars though) my neighbor has rebel flags everywhere and and his truck horn honks dixxie NOT KIDDING. the funny hting is my neighbor votes Dem down the line and so do most of his coworkers and friends.
13 posted on 11/18/2003 6:47:57 AM PST by rightofthefairway
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To: rightofthefairway; Grampa Dave
Dixie horns make people smile! I recommend everyone equip their truck with a those.
14 posted on 11/18/2003 6:50:11 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
Dixie horns make people smile! I recommend everyone equip their truck with a those.

I hope Santa remembers that my horn is on the fritz.

15 posted on 11/18/2003 6:52:25 AM PST by 4CJ (Come along chihuahua, I want to hear you say yo quiero taco bell. - Nolu Chan, 28 Jul 2003)
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To: stainlessbanner
Conservative Catholic Yankee living in the Confederate State of Florida Bump!
16 posted on 11/18/2003 6:53:41 AM PST by Jacvin
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To: stainlessbanner
It has been awhile since I heard them.

A black conservative I knew, had one on his SUV. It drove everybody nuts when he blasted out Dixie while driving in certain sections with a NRA sticker and a Bush/Cheney sticker on his car.
17 posted on 11/18/2003 6:55:40 AM PST by Grampa Dave (George Soros, the Evil Daddy Warbucks, has owned the DemonicRats for decades!)
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To: stainlessbanner
Good read, Stainless.
Here's one who articulates well what Southern heritage and tradition mean.
Apparently, Bowden knows, 'cause he lives it.
18 posted on 11/18/2003 6:56:37 AM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: stainlessbanner
I am a Tennessean, and you are right on brother. It does seem as though it is a democrat vs. south kinda thing not a north south thing at all, par for course.....
19 posted on 11/18/2003 6:58:23 AM PST by hannityforpres08
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To: billbears
Didn't want you to miss this article. A nice piece of work on Southern values.

Regards,
Az
20 posted on 11/18/2003 6:59:25 AM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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