Posted on 07/17/2007 11:16:28 AM PDT by Clint Johnson
Please excuse the clumsiness of a 54-year-old, good ole Southern boy writer who don't know much about blogging, but I was curious to read some reactions to Is It True What They Say About Dixie by Mary Knapp. Miss Knapp did a fair job, but some quotes were a little out of context.
The quote about "our ancestors are racists" really should be something like: "Outsiders to the South say our ancestors were racist slave owners so today's Southerners must be racist too." My original quote was meant to show the absurdity of the point of view that some have of today's South being a dark, scary place where white folks would like to bring back slavery.
Miss Knapp also confused 19th century abolitionist/terrorist John Brown with 18th century slave trader John Brown, who I enjoy pointing out was the sugar daddy of today's ultra liberal Brown University.
Freepers can see my entire presentation this Saturday, July 21, at 10:00 p.m. on C-Spann 2 BookTV. This will be the first time that BookTV will show this event, recorded a few weeks ago at a Eagle Forum Collegians meeting in Washington, D.C.
My purpose in writing the book was to point out that The South IS RESPONSIBLE for the republic that the U.S. has become. Left to the power brokers of the Northeast, the nation would still be just 13 states hugging the Atlantic Ocean and we would still be governed by the Articles of Confederation. The South is more patriotic (demonstrated by a 2005 Dept. of Defense survey showing Southerners are twice as likely to serve in the Armed Forces than any other region); The South is more racially welcoming (Census records show black folks are abandoning the Northeast and heading South for better opportunities; The causes for The War for Southern Independence were much more complicated and numerous than the official government explanation of "The North wanted to free the South's slaves."
“Why are they here? Good housing prices, the climate, effective bug spray, and their humility (sarc/).”
I call it the 2nd war of northern aggression.
I disagree with the underlined statement....Southern women would NEVER stoop so low as to become "equal" to us mere men, when they know they're better than us.
“”””I call it the 2nd war of northern aggression.”””
Good one!
Most American school children mark the first truly American settlement as the Plymouth Pilgrims.
Seems to me there was a settlement in Virginia that beat them to the punch.
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Jamestown was NOT the first, either.
fwiw, the FIRST THANKSGIVING was celebrated in TEXAS, just a few miles south of El Paso, about 100+ years BEFORE the pilgrim's arrival.
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And every textbook in South Carolina public schools is approved at the state level, so that must be the version of things they want propagated. It's not the yankees putting that book into your young hands.
Jamestown was NOT the first, either.
fwiw, the FIRST THANKSGIVING was celebrated in TEXAS, just a few miles south of El Paso, about 100+ years BEFORE the pilgrim's arrival.
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imVho, we southerners should teach SOUTHERN history & leave the LEFTIST/socialist/REVISIONIST nonsense to the LEFTIST, elitist, south-HATERS out of the northeast.
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Yep, I know there were a number of earlier settlements, mostly founded by the Spanish.
I like your screen name, by the way!
Geesh. Just more evidence of my theory that liberals:
a) make a mess of some place (urban, usually)
b) decide it’s too crime-ridden, too pricey, and too tax-ridden
c) leave said place for “conservative” place with no crime, few taxes, and that’s cheap
d) promptly vote just as they always do to make it just like it was where they came from and thus come back to a)
The beginning point of my theory that New England has lorded over the “culture” of this country, claiming everything is because of NE.
Before Jamestown, there was no permanent English settlement.
And since Texas was far from being with the English, it was not the first “truly American” thanksgiving.
And of course, thanksgivings were common. It wasn’t simply an annual event. It was something done when a community felt it needed to honor and thank God. Which could be any time and very frequently.
But apparently what’s happening in SC (a southern place) is very common to all our states. It’s a mindset. Especially since we all know the NEA hates the south of the Civil War.
BG Stand Watie was my ancestor's commanding general, when he was a member of the First Mounted Cherokee Rifle Regiment.
i'm proud to be his "MULE-holder" on FR.
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the Europeans & the AmerIndians gathered to feast/pray/rejoice/dance/sing & GIVE THANKS to GOD for surviving the cold winter.
my point is that the DAMnyankees want to take credit for & 'be first", even when they KNOW that their claims are a KNOWING LIE!
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they ALL should be fired, imVho.
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Not a victimless crime is it?
We must stop telling them “Y’all come back y’heah?”
Unfortunately, it’s not just the south. It’s anywhere that was occupied by conservatives.
It’s happening here in MD. Liberal MDers are invading Shrewsbury, PA (I know; my friend is 1 of them) and before long, it will be ruined. They are also just now escaping from DC and ghetto-liberal PG Co. to previously-always-conservative Charles Co (until 2006 elections, latter was always a conservative voting bloc).
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