I am a staunch southern non apologist who proudly claims Saxon heritage just as much as the poetic lore....Wessex to be exact
Neo Confederate is a pejorative term invented by PC folks who See everything though something minority
Like the word misogynist or bigot
No southerner i know uses such talk....we just consider ourselves like a last stand in modern America's nosedive.....holding onto a cohesive regional commonality
Like Scots or Bavarians or Flemish
Historian Grady McWhiney believed that the Celtic influence in the South was strong and he wrote a book about it: Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways In The Old South
The claim that this is some sort of horrible "neo-Confederate" evil comes straight from the Leftists over at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Those SPLC Leftists being essentially Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich. Once again, their hate-mongering finds its way to FR.
I used to be surprised when their poison got posted here, now I'm surprised if it doesn't get repeated. There's a crackpot lady doctor from Texas who can be counted on to flood every thread about illegal immigration with propaganda from the SPLC charging that every major immigration group is a front for "eugenics".
But I digress. Here is the SPLC's spew against McWhiney, Clyde Wilson, Celts, "neo-Confederates", and everybody else that Beirich and Potok hate; I'm sure we will see it echoed many more times here among the politically correct:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/winter/the-ideologues?page=0,3