Posted on 07/14/2004 12:41:46 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
Dismayed by "deepening divisions" in America and specifically the South, a dozen prominent white Southerners - historians and academics alike in cahoots with former President Jimmy Carter - have set out to retake the country.
"Of course, other good books dissecting the Bush regime have appeared, but ours will be the first critique of the government coming out of the South's white liberal tradition, a segment usually lost in the overwhelming tide of the region's conservatives," Mildred Inge Wakefield, publicist for "Where We Stand: Voices of Southern Dissent," tells this column.
The launch of this 12-essay anthology - penned by "not just another bunch of New York liberals," with the foreword by Carter - was to tak place Monday at the National Press Club in Washington.
Among the essayists: John Egerton, author of "The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America"; Dan T. Carter, past president of the Southern Historical Foundation and author of "From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963-1994"; and Washington resident Leslie W. Dunbar, director of the Southern Regional Council during the turmoil of the 1960s, who remains closely involved with the cause of Southern democracy (he most recently authored "The Shame of Southern Politics").
"The modern Republican ideology requires belief in American supremacy - of our power, privilege, morality, of our right, independent of the claims of criticisms of other governments and peoples," Dunbar writes.
"The white Southern-led current Republican Party espouses similar unilateralism. It is the old South's ideology of white supremacy, now writ large and become Republican U.S.A. supremacy."
Southern liberals.... they don't speak for the South.
"Southern liberals.... they don't speak for the South"
They don't seem to speak for the truth either.
These peanutbrains don't speak for anybody.
The modern Democratic ideology requires belief in American inferiority - of our power, privilege, morality, of our right, completely dependent on the claims of criticisms of other governments and peoples.
Let's see. That would be the Jim Crow laws and segregation. Who came up with that stuff, anyway? Oh, yes! The DEMOCRATS.
Lemme see... which party practices the 'politics of divisiveness'?
Sounds like another bedtime story.
This stuff really makes me sleep good!
""The modern Republican ideology requires belief in American supremacy - of our power, privilege, morality, of our right, independent of the claims of criticisms of other governments and peoples," Dunbar writes."
Oh.....forget it. **sigh**
sshhhhh....hush hush, we needn't bring up such things....!
LOL
"Dismayed by "deepening divisions" in America and specifically the South, a dozen prominent white Southerners - historians and academics alike in cahoots with former President Jimmy Carter - have set out to retake the country."
ROTFLOL!
Bless their hearts...
And, I mean that in the most Southern way possible. ;o)
In other words, if you believe that the modern United States of America is the greatest nation that's ever existed in history and that we needn't live every day of our lives in shame, you're no better than a white supremacist. What a bunch of arrogant creeps these people are.
Many attribute to shift to the GOP to the politics of race. IMO it is more about political philosophy and cultural values.
I'd like to say that they're cerebrally deficient or otherwise mentally incapacitated, thereby absolving them of the guilt for their actions. In reality, however, I have to admit the problem with them is simply that they are full of EVIL. They don't represent us in the South, and I truly wish that they'd move up North and leave the rest of us decent folks down here to run things here right.
Deo Vindice!
I don't have a problem with that. Who do these leftist think is superior, France?!?!?!
Anything with Jimmie Carter's name on it is a joke.
Whilst most republicans in the south tend to be colorblind ( because of their Christan faith) one can't deny that there is a largely rural redneck element in some states ( ESPECIALLY Louisiana) that tends to vote democrat because of their love of welfare payments. I really hope that we don't "reach out" to these bastards and let them enjoy what they deserve when they vote democrat. I think we should emphasize Jesus more in the south and let the rednecks who probably have many conservative social views but aren't usually Christian suffer to their own fate.I basically think that there must be a clear moral value code which all Republicans must agree on and rednecks like David Duke ( even though pro life) must be asked to move to the democrats. There is a very big difference between principled conservatism and redneck "conservatism".
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