Confederacy of the determined - (Southern heritage buffs vow "Confederate History Month")

WASHINGTON TIMES.COM ^ | APRIL 24, 2005 | Christina Bellantoni

[CHARLITE]

Southern heritage buffs vow to use the Virginia gubernatorial election as a platform for designating April as Confederate History and Heritage Month.

The four candidates have differing views on the Confederacy, an issue that has been debated for years in the commonwealth.

"We're not just a few people making a lot of noise," said Brag Bowling, a spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the oldest hereditary organization for male descendents of Confederate soldiers. "This is not a racial thing; it is good for Virginia. We're going to keep pushing this until we get it."

Each candidate recently shared his thoughts on what Mr. Bowling called a "litmus test for all politicians." Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine would not support a Confederate History and Heritage Month. Former state Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore would support something that recognizes everyone who lived during the Civil War.

Sen. H. Russell Potts Jr. and Warrenton Mayor George B. Fitch would support a Confederate History and Heritage Month. Many past Virginia governors honored the Civil War or the Confederacy.

In 1990, former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first black governor, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, issued a proclamation praising both sides of the war and remembering "those who sacrificed in this great struggle."

Former Govs. George Allen and James S. Gilmore III, both Republicans, issued Confederate History Month proclamations. In 2000, Mr. Gilmore replaced that proclamation with one commemorating both sides of the Civil War -- a move that enraged the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Gov. Mark Warner, a Democrat, has refused to issue a gubernatorial decree on either side of the Civil War.

Mr. Kaine, another Democrat, would decline to issue a Confederate History and Heritage Month proclamation if he is elected governor, said his campaign spokeswoman, Delacey Skinner.

[stand watie]

NO "Assuming" about it. the "unfortunate event" occurred. period. end of story.

i do NOT think that the incident says anything at ALL about northerners or New Yorkers IN GENERAL, but it certainly says LOTS about arrogant, ignorant,self-righteous, HATE-FILLED DAMNyankees.

DAMNyankees (i would GUESS) make up no more than 10-20% of the residents of the northern states.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

ALL the member of our prayer group READ the copies of the entire thread.

they believe that i'm "lowering myself" to be dealing with/writing to a bunch of hate-FILLED BIGOTS!

i have NO "anti-Northern bigotry", BUT i DISPISE damnyankee BIGOTS, south-HATERS, morons & damn-fools.free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

NOPE. i mean the LIES that, (in the minds of LEFTISTS, REVISIONISTS & STATISTS) pass for facts.

saying that something KNOWINGLY FALSE is a fact, does NOT make it so. it remains a LIE.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

you would LOSE your wager.

see #2062. in point of fact, those "pieces of DAMNyankee FILTH' that harassed us all about our religious beliefs succeeded in making SOUTHRONS out of a bunch of southerners.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

sadly, you and the rest of the unionist coven will NOT/can NOT "face facts" about just what a "piece of garbage in human-form" billy sherman was.

though he was NOT as big a creep as MG benjamin "THE BEAST" butler WAS, he was BAD ENOUGH.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

have you checked your e-mail recently??

i called "Brother Bill" about 10 minutes ago & he said he DID e-mail you.

free dixie,sw

[Modernman]

i have NO "anti-Northern bigotry", BUT i DISPISE damnyankee BIGOTS, south-HATERS, morons & damn-fools.free dixie,sw

That's a meaningless statement. In your mind, 'Damnyankees' includes anyone who does not agree with you that the Southern cause was saintly and that Lincoln raped women and ate babies.

You do realize that the majority of people in this country are, and always have been, happy that the CSA lost the Civil War and was wiped off the face of the earth?

[Modernman]

do NOT think that the incident says anything at ALL about northerners or New Yorkers IN GENERAL, but it certainly says LOTS about arrogant, ignorant,self-righteous, HATE-FILLED DAMNyankees.

I would be hugely surprised if the youths involved in your incident even knew about the Civil War or could find Virginia on a map. So, thay can hardly be called 'damnyankees,' even using your ever-shifting definition of the term.

[Modernman]

i called "Brother Bill" about 10 minutes ago & he said he DID e-mail you.

Nothing new in my inbox.

[stand watie]

in your dreams!

MOST southerners believe it is a PITY that our ancestors lost the WBTS, despite >140 YEARS of self-righteous PROPAGANDA & LIES about the CSA from the LEFTISTS & REVISIONISTS out of the NE.

[stand watie]

i would be SURPISED if the "idiots" at Ground Zero wern't as FULL OF HATE as the members of the unionist coven on FR demonstrably are.<P.free diixe,sw

[Modernman]

i would be SURPISED if the "idiots" at Ground Zero wern't as FULL OF HATE as the members of the unionist coven on FR demonstrably are

I don't think anyone here hates you, sw. Pity would be a more accurate description.

[Modernman]

MOST southerners believe it is a PITY that our ancestors lost the WBTS,

I was referring to Americans in general. And, these days, I would imagine most people living in the South are either indifferent or happy with the results of the Civil War. Northerners have been doing a good job of colonizing the South over the last few decades and there is no end in sight to the colonization.

[M. Espinola]

If Lincoln were all the horrible things the neo-confeds shoddily attempt to tag him with, Lincoln, not Jefferson Davis, would have been leading the Southern secessionists. Since Big Lie tactics worked for a while in previous history, these delusional pencil neck geeks think they can pull it off on the internet. Wrong!

Old Abe was not a saint, nobody is even coming close to pitching such foolishness, however as America's 16th President he did his best to stop the insurrectionists, coupled with finally ending slavery, an evil the self proclaimed 'Confederate leaders' triggered the Civil War to in order to preserve, plus the expansion of their very profitable human bondage enterprise into western states if they had won. President Lincoln was gunned down by one of the conspirators of a rebel attempt to brutally decapitate the entire executive branch of the American government of 1865.

Not only was the pro-slaver leadership guilty of the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans for causing the Civil War in the first place, but also the explosive atmosphere resulting in the brazen assassination of a U.S. President. On that repulsive act alone, every known, outspoken 'Confederate leader' should have been tried for treason & conspiracy to overthrow the American government, in addition to a number of other charges.

The only two completely obsessed neo-confederate diehards remaining on this thread unrelentingly post irrational & inflammatory statements relating to the entire Civil War & Reconstruction period, clearly exposing their preposterous and real seditionary motives for their Lost Cause, which in their sick minds, covers the Confederate defeat (something they refuse to except) all the way up to the more recent, violent demise of the segregated South's former 'legally enforced', brutal, Jim Crow era, a disgusting stain on our nation's history.

[M. Espinola]

Did you call people in New York "pieces of DAMNyankee FILTH"?

Come on, cough up with the truth -- for once.

[A Jovial Cad]

Fine.

What's a "SOUTHRONS," btw? Or do I have to know the secret handshake to obtain that information...

[stand watie]

SEVERAL of the unionist coven HATE ALL southrons/southerners & "look down on" ALL of us.

i note, also, that the coven did NOT "kick out" the RACIST among you.

that is the REAL PITY.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

i certainly DID call the ONES in the GROUP, who harrassed us for our religious beliefs, "pieces of DAMNyankee filth"!

i would guess, based solely on your DUMB, silly,ignorant & HATE-filled posts, that you (& several other of the unionist coven members) would have joined the group that night in their "good fun" at our expense.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

SOUTHRONS are persons who have come to the SAD conclusion that INDEPENDENCE is the best course for the southland, as we finally have come to believe that the current government will become even more LESS FREE in the days to come.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

NO "ever-shifting definition".

all TRUE southerners KNOW what a damnyankee is & can describe one from childhood.

a DAMNyankee is a HATER, who despises the southland, our dixie battleflags, our HERO-MARTYRS, our memorials, our CSA cemeteries, our "separateness", our culture, our mores & our southern people.

in other words the DAMNyankee is an ANTI-Southern BIGOT & a HATE-filled moron, who drinks in the kool aide of the most extreme, hate-filled, arrogant, self-righteous elitists of the northeast.

that is a FINE working definition, if not a PERFECT one.

free dixie,sw