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Rude, Crude Yankees = Good Useful Idiots
The Patriotist ^ | July 22, 2002 | Al Benson Jr.

Posted on 07/22/2002 12:30:48 PM PDT by Aurelius

I occasionally get some rather rude e-mail from those with a deep-rooted Yankee mentality in regard to my little web site. Usually the writer informs me, rather contemptuously that my web site is all wet, that it stinks, that the War of Northern Aggression was really fought to preserve slavery, that I am totally in error about Abraham Lincoln, who, in the writer's opinion, is really god, and on it goes. 'Those people' never offer historical argument to back up what they say [they can't] but they are quite accomplished at ridiculing others when they, themselves, don't have a clue about the historical accuracy of anything. No doubt many of them are cultural marxists and don't even realize it. But, then, no one has ever accused those with a Yankee mentality of being over-endowed with discernment. Let me say here, that when I refer to the Yankee mindset, I am not offering a blanket condemnation of all Northern folks, else I would also condemn myself. I know lots of good Northerners who would cringe at being thought of as Yankees, and I know some Southerners who, unfortunately, fit perfectly into the Yankee mold. What I am talking about has no connection whatever with where you were born.

I got a rather nice e-mail recently from a Southern-born Yankee type who crudely informed me that "Lincoln was right and J W. Booth, and R. E. Lee and Jeff Davis and the rest of the gang were murderers who all deserved to be hanged." You can really tell that this character did his homework - what historical insight! He then went on to inform me that he was a white man born in the South but was, "thankfully educated in California." Folks, I submit, that anyone today who is thankful for having been 'educated' in California the way this man seems to have been 'educated' is just not the brightest light in the harbor. He then informed me, in his infinite wisdom that I should 'get a life' beyond my web site and 'grow a brain.' He closed his tirade with the statement that Lincoln was the last of the good Republicans, and his parting salutation was 'Long live Bill Clinton.' Usually I don't bother replying to such sanctimonious drivel, but, in this man's case I made an exception. I e-mailed him back and told him that if people such as he didn't like my web site then I must be doing something right. I suppose I should have ended my reply to him with 'Have a nice day' but, for some unknown reason, I didn't bother to.

This individual is a perfect example of the Yankee mindset - smug, self-satisfied, egotistical, and totally ensconced within a sense of their own perfect rightness in all things and on all issues. Anyone daring to disagree with them has to be berated because 'those people' have got it all figured out - after all, their 'teachers' and 'college professors' dutifully informed them that the war was all about slavery and that Lincoln freed all the slaves, and the 'history' professor wouldn't lie - would he? Lincoln must be more astute than Jesus Christ because, after all, Lincoln came along more recently on the evolutionary scale didn't he?

I have had people that checked out my web site and disagreed with something they saw on it. Often they have contacted me and have been courteous enough to voice their opinions in a civil manner. Others have offered constructive criticism, which was all right, because I took it in the spirit in which it was given. I had a black man once that read one of my articles and took exception to it, stating that he was a Christian. I contacted him back, informing him that I was also a Christian and with Christian charity, I sought to correct the misconception that he had. Once he understood where I was coming from we were able to carry on a dialogue with no bad feeling on either side. Some folks will check out the site and come back with genuine questions about something. That's fine. I answer what I can historically [unlike the Yankees, I don't claim to have all the answers about everything] and I often try to pass these folks on to someone else that knows more than I do.

But there is a certain class of Yankees - often well 'educated' that are just so superior to the rest of us 'great unwashed' that they don't even feel the need to attempt courtesy. They howl about us 'rednecks' and what we write and tell us to 'get a life' yet the sum total of their 'life' seems to be wrapped up in demeaning those who dare to disagree with their vaunted opinions.

A while back, Professor Clyde Wilson wrote an excellent article in Southern Partisan magazine called The Yankee Problem in America. In it Professor Wilson took on such Yankee paragons or 'virtue' as Ted Kennedy, the man who never learned to drive over a bridge straight, and St. Hillary Clinton of 'Cattle Futures' fame. Wilson described such people as smug, self-righteous, above the rules the rest of us live by, and completely convinced that they are right in all things - right enough that they deserve the privilege of telling the rest of us how to live - all for 'our own good' of course [and just maybe for their profit.]

There is no place in the Yankee mindset for grace, courtesy, compassion, consideration of the feelings of others, or for any of those Scriptural virtues that have graced and improved our civilization in the past. The Yankee knows only complete self-righteousness and, in that self-righteousness he exhibits a certain perverse pleasure in seeking to trample on the feelings of those who dare to disagree with his elevated opinions. In most cases, the Yankee understanding of accurate history is about an inch deep, and therefore, he becomes little more than a 'useful idiot' that the cultural Marxist professor that 'educated' him can turn loose on the world for the total benefit of the New World Order.


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To: WhiskeyPapa
Damn Walt where did that come from? It doesn't matter your 100% right.
101 posted on 07/22/2002 1:56:31 PM PDT by HELLRAISER II
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To: Shooter 2.5
One would have thought that Jim's pronouncement on the subject was self-evident, vis the "Lincoln Conspiracy."
102 posted on 07/22/2002 1:57:07 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty
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To: Shooter 2.5
When Jim Robinson mentioned that he didn't want any 40 year old conspiracy theories, I wish he would have added the 130+ year old controversies. I regard all of this as a bunch of Anti-American rhetoric.

You're right; we're all Americans and we have current battles to fight together. No more divisive posts from me (for today at least).

103 posted on 07/22/2002 1:57:25 PM PDT by arm958
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To: Aurelius; LibKill; southernpatriot_usa; SC Swamp Fox; Constitution Day; TomServo; billbears; ...
Back when I first started my website (April '98), I figured I would get a mailbox full of crap like that but, it never happened. The 1st reaction most yankees have when they finally discover they've been lied to is stunned silence.
Of course, a forum like this invites the tiny handful who choose to ignore the truth and start making up a totally bs revisionist history to cover for the lies they were taught in school but, that's just because they must think their revisionism will get read by someone as gullible as they are. The truth is like Pandora's box. Once it's out, you can't hide it and the public can only reject the government propaganda schools that teach the big lie.
104 posted on 07/22/2002 1:58:06 PM PDT by shuckmaster
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To: Snuffington
Read the whole post, I called them the same as you would Ignorant Red Necks or @ssholes whichever one prefers. Bottomline, the Wars been over a long time were Americans & we have enough enemies that we don't need to be fighting amongst each other.
105 posted on 07/22/2002 2:00:48 PM PDT by HELLRAISER II
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To: Aurelius
We Yankees in Maine are polite; it's just those people in Massachusetts and New York who ruin it for everyone else.

Seriously, let's look at counter-factual history: what if the Southern states had successfully seceded. The North would have continued rapid industrialization and expansion into the Western states (with all their mineral wealth); the South would have remained largely agricultural. Result: one region grows wealthy, while another not only has much slower growth, but also has a big racial problem that still needs to be resolved. (There are other sources of cotton, as the British found with India during the Civil War). Then, in the next century, even with high rates of immigration, the United States (excluding the South) may not have had enough manpower to fight two World Wars and finish them as quickly as she did--which would greatly change world history--not to mention the increased difficulty of facing down the damn, dirty Communists during the Cold War.

Worst of all, we may have had no peanut butter (without the contributions of freed slave George Washington Carver). All in all, the alternatives to not fighting the Civil War could have been far worse.

106 posted on 07/22/2002 2:01:57 PM PDT by Tancred
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To: stainlessbanner

In most cases, the Yankee understanding of accurate history is about an inch deep!

I too was fed on the Yankee lies during my educational years. It was only after I dug into facts on my own that I learned the truth of what happened. THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE! And brother do I feel free!

I am proud my ancestors came from the South!

108 posted on 07/22/2002 2:03:47 PM PDT by Colt .45
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To: StoneColdGOP
I agree. Have you ever noticed how good you feel while sitting in a smoky bar. Then when you go outside - BAM - the fresh air get to you and you can't walk straight.
109 posted on 07/22/2002 2:04:18 PM PDT by mushroom
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To: Aurelius
F. If it wasn't for the Civil War, the folks on this website would be yelping about how the North is being flooded by "migrant workers" from the South.
110 posted on 07/22/2002 2:06:55 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Tancred
We Yankees in Maine are polite;

Last year I met a man and his wife in Gastonia, NC. They were from Maine. Without knowing their political leaning, I offered them a 3' x 5' Confederate flag as a token from the South. The man thanked me and said the flag would go up on the flag pole on his property which fronts the Atlantic Ocean near Bar Harbor. He said his neighbor flew a Confederate flag, also.

We are going to drive these yankee imperialists nuts, you know.

111 posted on 07/22/2002 2:20:09 PM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: shuckmaster
You've done an excellent job!
112 posted on 07/22/2002 2:22:55 PM PDT by goodieD
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To: Colt .45
You know, in the not too distant future, we're going to make these yankees show their passports before they step foot across the Mason-Dixon, into God's country. And we're going to turn a bunch of them away, also.
113 posted on 07/22/2002 2:24:01 PM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: Aurelius
This individual is a perfect example of the Yankee mindset - smug, self-satisfied, egotistical, and totally ensconced within a sense of their own perfect rightness in all things and on all issues.

I see a pot calling the kettle black.

114 posted on 07/22/2002 2:24:01 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: My2Cents
Maybe when people stop lying about it..especially in schools.
115 posted on 07/22/2002 2:27:24 PM PDT by goodieD
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To: CWRWinger
You know, in the not too distant future, we're going to make these yankees show their passports before they step foot across the Mason-Dixon, into God's country. And we're going to turn a bunch of them away, also.

Now who's trashing the Constitution?

117 posted on 07/22/2002 2:27:29 PM PDT by rdb3
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To: rdb3
Now who's trashing the Constitution?

Lincoln trashed it, the South is going to bring it back. Do you not believe in the free enterprise system?

118 posted on 07/22/2002 2:31:12 PM PDT by CWRWinger
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To: CWRWinger
"You know, in the not too distant future, we're going to make these yankees show their passports before they step foot across the Mason-Dixon, into God's country. And we're going to turn a bunch of them away, also."

Whatever works for you. Just make sure you never call yourself an American while you're at it.

119 posted on 07/22/2002 2:32:26 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5
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To: CWRWinger
What in the world does crossing the Mason-Dixon Line have to do with free-enterprise? You're bellyaching about Lincoln's trashing of the Constitution, yet you seemingly have no problem trashing it yourself.

Wow! That's. . . Man!

120 posted on 07/22/2002 2:40:17 PM PDT by rdb3
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