just for the record, my beef with Neo-Yankees here is that they join the same bandwagon as the NAACP or Morris Dees in trying to demonize the South for the Civil War and slavery. it appears to me that they are the ones trying to refight the war or perhaps more accurately Reconstruction specifically
i for one am tired of seeing my history down here being supplanted with their idea of what it should be...no regional pride flags, no courthouse monuments to my dead kin, no plaques like George Bush took down, no schools named after Southerners, basically the South presented in their image....Reconstruction 150 years later.
I am opposed to that and have been since it started up around 20 years ago with a coalition of northern liberals and local black agitators and John Edwards types using this to enrich their coffers. that folks who call themselves conservative play along is the real depressing fact, not that some southerners like to go on about Lincoln’s excesses.
I do find discussing that period of history interesting and many southerners are more likely to be more supportive of why the South fought and to think differently of why our kinfolk fought. You have to remember many of us were born and raised on land our families had for generations precisely where these battles were fought. I for one dug for artifacts as a boy on the Jackson-Clinton road with my dad on our land....found stuff too. Everywhere you turn, there is more to remind ya. My land has redoubts still at the top near Shy’s Hill. To Northerners...most of whom came after the war, this is a distant history thing, for us down here, we are living in the middle of it...the memories, the peoples and the ramifications. You guys are not except at Gettysburg for the most part.
Why we would resist that history we live with daily and our ancestors died as a part of being retold by outsiders who reject us should not surprise you. I would not respect anyone from anywhere who would allow their traditions trampled as such.
That does not mean anyone but the most unusual are calling for secession today.
For the opportunists, their allegiance is to money and power. They have no country.
God bless the men in blue and the men in butternut and gray.