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What Does It Mean "The South Shall Rise Again":
The Wichita (KS) Eagle ^ | 23 May 2007 | Mark McCormick

Posted on 05/24/2007 6:03:30 AM PDT by Rebeleye

...he was stunned to see two large Confederate flags flying from trucks...emblazoned with the words "The South Shall Rise Again." I'm stunned, too, that people still think it is cool to fly this flag. Our society should bury these flags -- not flaunt them...because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many... ...This flag doesn't belong on city streets, in videos or in the middle of civil discussion. It belongs in our past -- in museums and in history books -- along with the ideas it represents.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
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To: mkjessup
Uhh, I never said they did. Are you sure you're responding to the right person? I'm a 100 percent genuine son of the South, born below the Mason Dixon Line, and I'll have you know I had grits for breakfast this morning, and I know all the words to 'Dixie' AND 'Are You From Dixie'.

LOL Good one!

381 posted on 05/24/2007 10:04:37 AM PDT by beckysueb
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To: Polybius

This goes in a direction I never thought till now it could go!!!

Yer crackin’ me up suh!

Reminds me I think I should ask my doctor about viagra, or levitra or some other proprietismic producing drug...

I still wonder how you can actually keep a straight face when someone comes into an ER stating they’ve had an erection for more the 4 hours...And not stand up and applaud!!!

Post of the day award to you!!!


382 posted on 05/24/2007 10:04:45 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: NavyCanDo

Bless you!


383 posted on 05/24/2007 10:07:31 AM PDT by beckysueb
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To: Non-Sequitur
No to all your points, but don't point fingers at a large portion of USA citizens as if we are still a problem for this country. We are one of the last bastions of true, patriotic conservatism left in the USA. There is far more racial harmony in the South than in many other areas of the country.

A few years ago there was a push to replace the Mississippi Flag with a new version that did not include the Battle flag. The measure was soundly defeated with a sizable portion of the blacks voting to keep the current flag.

We are not the enemy, the Liberals and RINOs are.
384 posted on 05/24/2007 10:07:48 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: Badeye

A cut and run argument if I ever saw one...

Have a good day FRiend!


385 posted on 05/24/2007 10:08:40 AM PDT by frithguild (The Freepers moved as a group, like a school of sharks sweeping toward an unaware and unarmed victim)
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To: Islander7

Thats why Tennessee is known as the Volunteer State.


386 posted on 05/24/2007 10:09:53 AM PDT by beckysueb
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To: KarlInOhio

No, call it the General Sherman!
He was an Ohio boy!


387 posted on 05/24/2007 10:11:33 AM PDT by hawkboy (Duncan Hunter '08!)
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To: MamaTexan

Touche’ and the Confederate flag has nothing to do with advocating slavery.


388 posted on 05/24/2007 10:14:10 AM PDT by beckysueb
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To: Badeye

I agree with you 100%


389 posted on 05/24/2007 10:15:07 AM PDT by beckysueb
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To: Rebeleye
When the South rises again, what does that mean? Another Civil War? Rejection of American principles? A return to slavery?

What an idiotic statement.

Civil war? Keep pushing the socialist agenda and we'll see about that.

Rejection of American principles? Those were lost a long time ago, thanks to socialist politicians and activist courts, few of which could be found in the South.

A return to slavery? Please - stop being a whiny little drama queen and stop insulting half of the nation.

As an Illinois native now living in Texas, it would take a pretty big economic opportunity to entice me to move back to a state on the fast track to becoming the next Massachusetts. Such American principles as the spirit of rugged individualism, the ethic of hard work, love of God and country, and respect for neighbors are being lost throughout the North and replaced by nanny-state, overwhelmingly government controlled societies.

The North lost American principles a long time ago. It's not too late for the South.

390 posted on 05/24/2007 10:15:16 AM PDT by SaveTheChief (Chief Illiniwek (1926-2007))
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To: varina davis
unless, of course, it’s a cast iron pot used for Southern style Chicken and Dumplins’.

Now you've got me hungry!

391 posted on 05/24/2007 10:16:07 AM PDT by beckysueb
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To: Islander7

Too funny! And congrats! You come from good people! I saw on another thread awhile back that Scots-Irish was a misnomer- there was no such thing! Shrug. That’s what I’ve always been told my people were. A good dose of Welsh and Cherokee as well.


392 posted on 05/24/2007 10:17:05 AM PDT by gardengirl
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To: Ditto; x; Bubba Ho-Tep

Come on down. This one looks like it’s got legs.


393 posted on 05/24/2007 10:18:39 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: gardengirl

You forgot the old southern staple, pinto beans and cornbread with a slice of raw onion and fried taters.


394 posted on 05/24/2007 10:19:18 AM PDT by beckysueb
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To: LS

“... you could sew your own shirts, bedsheets, and other products.”

Of course, this is still true today but few people do so because it is much cheaper to buy manufactured finished goods. This was also true in the 1820’s, but this fact does not refute the argument that high tariffs on imported finished cotton goods reduced the demand for raw cotton harvested in the South. Moreover, the argument that the tariff was not important to Southerners (especially South Carolinians) is counter to the decades-long campaign they waged against it. The tariff of 1816 was 20%, not .5%.


395 posted on 05/24/2007 10:22:15 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: beckysueb

YUm-Yummmm! What time?


396 posted on 05/24/2007 10:26:56 AM PDT by gardengirl
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To: beckysueb
They hate Christainity. We stand against things like gay marriage and abortion, etc. We believe in States Rights and America as a sovereign nation, not to be diluted with people who don’t love her like we do. Yep, I can see why the north hates us.

You seem to think you have the authority to speak for the North. Your posts keep accusing us Northerners of "hating" the South.

You have no right to speak for me.

I live in Michigan where 82% of the population are Christians. We don't "hate Christianity".

Keep your North-hating comments to yourself. You are doing nothing but re-inforcing the stereotype of the typical southern "redneck".

The Civil War has been over for a very long time. Get over it.

397 posted on 05/24/2007 10:27:50 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: riverdawg
"...but this fact does not refute the argument that high tariffs on imported finished cotton goods reduced the demand for raw cotton harvested in the South.

So if the textile mills in the North which used 100% Southern cotton were forced out of business by cheeper imports from England and France who used maybe 90% Southern cotton, demand for Souther cotton would be higher?

That makes no sense at all which is likely why no one made that argument in 1860.

398 posted on 05/24/2007 10:29:26 AM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: beckysueb
The confederate flag is a symbol of southern pride, nothing more.

Funny thing how there isn't any Northern pride or any Northern flag.

If I mention segregation, slavery, lynching, Dixiecrats, or terrorist organizations like the KKK, southerners get all red-faced and their panties in a bunch and want to start the war all over again. Some of you say I need a history lesson. Well, until you can demonstrate to me what the heck "southern pride" is in real terms that don't involve eating BBQ, listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd, or anybody remotely involving the movie Deliverance, my impression is that You People still have a major PR problem.

399 posted on 05/24/2007 10:34:31 AM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: Tokra

I meant northeastern liberals. Sorry I guess they don’t hate Christains, defend homosexual marriage, abortion, etc. My bad.


400 posted on 05/24/2007 10:39:42 AM PDT by beckysueb
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