So, being a southerner overshadows being an American?
So, being a southerner overshadows being an American?
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Southerners fought to defend the Constitution. What we have today in Washington, DC is a result of the LOSS of the Civil War to the Washington Establishment by those who believed in States Rights in favor of centralized government/Statist policies, which have continued to increase incrementally and progressively since that time: (1) Reconstruction (2) Progressivism (3) The New Deal (4) The Great Society — and these are just some of the main “movements”...
The ultimate outcome of the War Between The States was that the States which desired to “preserve the Union at all costs” did so by destroying the Constitution — which was to be the BASIS of the Union. That’s why the Constitution can be and HAS been so distorted and perverted by Progressives in the past 100 years — it was made possible BY the Civil War era and the precedents set then...
So, no, I don’t think being a Southerner overshadows being an American. I think being a Southerner, and being true to the principles of those who stood for the South and for the Constitution, IS being an American. That are not contradictory. Hope that explains where I’m coming from...