Today CSA sentiment runs very high in Appalachian TN...Southern flags everywhere...you are likely to see more CSA flags there than anywhere I have been except on the car tags of my home state.
I owned property one county to the east in Ashe county North Carolina for many years and know the area well.
It is very socially conservative, extremely white and hence sympathetic to Southerness.
I'll be you the problem is actually this Watauga Historical Outfit opposing them. I'll wage they have more than a few academic types on their board many of whom are likely not from the South.
I know it pains you but south of Northern Virginia, the mountainous South is truly very very southern and embraces all the old vestiges symbolically anyhow and identifies with that...not so much with the Unionism you accurately described from history..
North Carolina is the same way except Asheville which is highly lesbian and leftist and the resort areas like Banner Elk-Beech-Sugar-Blowing Rock which in summer become very Florida oy vey.
The resort areas to the sw of Appalachia like Cashiers, Highlands, Blue Ridge etc stay southern as a rule even in summer.
Your admonishments are only self serving btw. The Yankees who fought in that was and sacrificed and watched their pals die by the 100s of 100os invading my homeland had no problem coming south after the war for the remainder of their lives and commemorating the valor year and after year with each other's flags in all their glory and uniforms and whatnot. Commanders of each side traveled long distances to honour each other in death. Yet you and your tribe here consider southern symbolism an insult. It was not an insult to the actual northeners who fought in that war and I'll tell you what. I'll go with their judgment over your's.
One of The Coven made the absurd statement on another thread that only unionists could be called 'true hillbillies'. It's just more proof that the yankees try to make the rules up as they go to support their socialist/communist agenda. The funny thing is that the yankee turd that posted that has probably never been in the Southern Blue Ridge mountains.
The resort areas to the sw of Appalachia like Cashiers, Highlands, Blue Ridge etc stay southern as a rule even in summer.
I live just south of Cashiers on the SC side and there's plenty of arrogant relocated yankees all over this area but for the most part they stay hunkered down in their gayted communities.
It was not an insult to the actual northeners who fought in that war and I'll tell you what. I'll go with their judgment over yours.
Here, here!!
These neo-yanks are nothing more than socialist, big government propagandists and apologists and useful idiots for the democrat party.