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Posted on 02/24/2005 4:02:20 PM PST by CHARLITE
Howard Dean and Yankee Democrats don't have a clue what it means to be a Southerner. It's not about Confederate flags. It's about honor, family, self reliance and American patriotism.
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, describing voters as he sees people – divided by race, class and gender. What a hoot. Liberals imagine identity politics fit real people. Dean should listen to Yellow Dawg Democrat Zell Miller.
Confederate Voter is the wrong term. 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 did stumble 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 –- reside 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:
Slavery, segregation and racism are wrong. They are sins against God. There are white, black and other racists. None are respected.
The Confederate battle flag is a racist symbol only to racists, demagogues (liberals, thus Democrats), and dummies. To Southerners, Confederate symbols stand for courage, sacrifice, and fidelity. The people who want to oppress the Cross of St. Andrew want to suppress the Cross of Jesus.
The American flag is the highest national symbol and beloved above all else.
There are absolute truths, unchanging and yet always relevant, in the Holy Bible, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
The Bible Belt is buckled by people who actually read the Bible, believe it and evangelize it more than any other region. From a Biblical world view come the values that count.
Ten Commandments. Our culture and laws are based on our Judeo-Christian values. Historical fact is not hate, nor is it "imposing" beliefs, nor is it a separation-of-church-and-state issue. It’s a free-speech and freedom-of-religion issue. This issue draws from the same power as Martin Luther and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Watch out.
Family First. Your name is all you have really in life. You can not shame your last name – your People. Honor is personal, familial and real.
Love the Land. Hunting, fishing, and animals are all part of good stewardship, using and preserving our natural blessings.
Men and Women are different for good purposes. Men should be gentlemen. Women should be ladies. Marriage is between one man and one woman only.
Sexual sins are wrong. Adultery, homosexuality, incest and bestiality are all wrong. Tolerate homosexuals -- they’re your kin -- but don’t honor them.
Fight when right. Serving in the military is an honor. Fighting for freedom is worth the cost – no matter what.
Defend yourself. We have a right and duty to defend our persons, our family and home and neighbors with whatever it takes, including personal firearms.
Leave us alone. Tax less, govern less, nanny less, lecture less, because we want the individual freedom for our family, our property, our opportunity, our liberty to prosper.
Crime leads to poverty. Poverty doesn’t cause crime. Our ancestors built something from nothing and re-built it again after destruction. Better to earn your way in life than take a handout. Better to be poor and free than rich and slave.
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).
We are conservatives based on convictions. We are not loyal to any Party, as much as to our Principles.
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:
If Southern culture, fueled by Christian evangelism, is ascending, then the immigrant invasion (foreign and Northern) will add to the Southern census - and conservative votes - after each generation of assimilation.
If the Liberal Cultural Cleansing, most ruthless in government schools, is gaining and Southerners are weak enough to surrender, then Liberals can win elections.
If blacks ever get off the Democrat plantation, then the South will explode as a conservative haven, hope and success. Progress is so slow in this emancipation. Yet, the irony is how Southern values – white and black are so close. We are united more by culture than we are divided by race.
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-camily, anti-evangelical Christian - "youse guys".
October 6, 2003
James Atticus Bowden has specialized in inter- disciplinary, long-range "futures" studies for more than a decade. He is employed by a Defense Department contractof for the Future Combat Systems. A 1972 graduate of the United States Military Academy, he is a retired Army Infantry Officer. He earned graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University. He holds two elected Republican Party positions in Virginia.
Mr. Bowden's e-mail address is: jatticus@aol.com
Yeah, but "yankee" to a sutherner is always preceeded by "damn" and there is nothing between the two. "Damnyankee" is one word.
Appears ONCE in Google cache, 19 Apr 2005 by YOU. I've never seen this, but I certainly will never forget it. Thank you.
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What a wonderful way to put it. Born and bred in Kentucky, where we boast the 'Real South' begins, all of the things noted -we hold true and dear. Old connotations of southerners regarding slavery and segregation still, unfortunately, ring true in some areas(very few), but the majority have come into the light, and hold true to the foundation of the Bible and the Truth it represents.
This includes the INCORPORATION of Church and State, not the SEPARATION, the ability to have morals and values and openly share them with all who pass through, and the desire to teach our children the importance of the 'Southern' way of life.
God, Family and Country. THAT is what the South is truly about. The Confederate flag is flown by some out of ignorance - that small few who still hold to bigotry and hate. The true meaning of that flag is what our heritage stands for, being proud of who we are, where we were raised, who we have become.
Yes, we are the heart of the Bible Belt - we go to Church on Sunday's and Wednesday nights. We still have family dinners, long for summer nights on the porch swing, and are lulled asleep listening to the music of crickets and katy-dids.
You will never meet a stranger, people still say yes ma'am and yes sir, doors are still held open for ladies, and we smile at children as they run playing down the road.
What the Liberals do not understand, is that we are a new breed of Southerners. Once synonymous with the word 'Democrat' - due to the hardworking, blue collar Americans in this area - we have come to realize the Democratic party no longer cares about values and morals. It is impossible to be a Christian in the South and vote for gay rights, abortion and taking prayer and God out of everything public. That is not even close to what we are about.
Around Christmas, you will see the Nativity at local Banks and even the Courthouses. At Easter, you will find crosses stuck in the ground on the hillsides. You will see signs at businesses that say 'God Bless America', and 'In God We Trust'. And on election day - we will vote what our Lord leads us too, not what the Democrats, MSM and other 'peace' groups have tried to make us believe.
We are the South - the imbodiment of what our families have raised us to believe - and the more liberal the Democrats become, the more Southern votes they will lose. It is that simple. And don't even think about trying to put a Democratic woman in the Whitehouse - that will fly like a chicken in a rain storm.
They just do not understand.
Let go of God? Not a chance. We are only growing stronger. Check the Church member rolls. Check the demographics on how many new churches are being built, how many new members are joining each month. Those are the statistics and polls they should watch.
Now, if we can just get the Truth out into the MSM, we will be in business....JK
Actually I'm sitting about a mile from Cedar Grove Cemetery right now, and finally took time to go by and find the monument. Wish I had the wherewithall (smarts) to take a picture of it and post it here.
SERIOUS QUESTION, not being facetious...then is country music in some way, at least, influenced by the Scots?
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I was looking for the lyrics of this song when I saw your post.
I have them at work and couldn't put my finger on them at home.
You done good.
BTTT !
My Confederate ancestors went west after the war and became ranchers in Wyoming and Nebraska.
Yes! Country music came from the lively fiddle tunes produced by the Scots-Irish in the Appalachians during the 18th Century.
Take a picture!!! We'll help you post it!
i'm an ORANGEBLOOD & have heard them all! rotflmRao!
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it was a GOODIE, as i told PPM yesterday!
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it's what HATERS/BIGOTS/MORONS do = HATE!
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OBVIOUSLY, you are NOT a DAMNyankee.
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"Honor is personal, familial and real."
Honor is almost a lost term in modern liberal political- think. That view is an outgrowth of morality being a relative value.
Great article. Great guy. But the number of Yankees who think like him might probably surprise him. The liberal media police and northern academia doesn't speak for all Yankees.
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