Rude, Crude Yankees = Good Useful Idiots

The Patriotist ^ | July 22, 2002 | Al Benson Jr.

[Alouette]

And we dont need to get into how the old south felt about Jews.

The Brains of the Confederacy

[WhiskeyPapa]

God save the South!

This reminds me of that story here in Atlanta where the guy was praying devoutly: "Oh Lord, please let me win the lotto!"

And the voice from on high came down: "I will my son, but you must meet me half way. Buy some lotto tickets!"

The moral of the story?

Don't rear up against the lawful national authority and you won't get slam dunked by the good guys.

Walt

[TexConfederate1861]

Walt:

You have hit the nail on the proverbial head.

The founding fathers wanted very little "national authority"
in the first place. Each state was and is supposed to be sovereign.

[TexConfederate1861]

Yancy & Ruffin were BOTH extreme ends of the secession question. Not a good example to throw at me.

And don't quote Bruce Catton either. He is extremely biased in his view of the Civil War.......toward the North of course!

[TexConfederate1861]

This "goober" as you call him, has more degrees in his little finger than you have knowledge in that Yankee hardtack head of yours!

[WhiskeyPapa]

The founding fathers wanted very little "national authority" in the first place. Each state was and is supposed to be sovereign.

You'll not find them saying that. You are passing on what you've heard or hoped or surmised, based on something besides the actual record.

George Washington said -- well, he can speak for himself:

"In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily to our view, that which appears to the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existance. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected; and thus the Constitution we present is the result of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculularity of our political situation rendered indispensible....

George Washington, President [of the Constitutional Convention] By Unanimous Order of the Convention"

According to Washington, the delegates were -unanimous- in wanting to consolidate the Union. So George Washington is saying one thing, and -you- are saying something else? Who should we believe?

Walt

[Phantom Lord]

Compared to what NYC was like 10 years ago it is safe.

And there are no southern cities approaching NYC in population.

Lets take a look at per capita rates, not total numbers.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Yancy & Ruffin were BOTH extreme ends of the secession question. Not a good example to throw at me.

Yancey used the n-word. Surely that is mainstream enough for you?

How about Lawrence Keitt?

Soon to be CSA congressman Lawrence Keitt, speaking in the South Carolina secession convention, said, "Our people have come to this on the question of slavery. I am willing, in that address to rest it upon that question. I think it is the great central point from which we are now proceeding, and I am not willing to divert the public attention from it."

How about Alexander Stephens? He is about as moderate a secessionist as you'll find. He called slavery the cornerstone of the so-called CSA.

You need to quote the record; but it doesn't support what you say.

Walt

[Phantom Lord]

Yankeenator is pretty good.

[Phantom Lord]

My fellow NC Freepers will vouch for my love of the south and my almost total adaptation to the 'culture'. But idiots like the one who posted this thread will not be spared and I will mock and ridicule them.

[WhiskeyPapa]

And don't quote Bruce Catton either. He is extremely biased in his view of the Civil War.......toward the North of course!

Don't blame Catton for what Yancey and Ruffin said.

Walt

[wtc911]

Do you want reparations with that apology? Get the Rev. Al to help you out. He's good with whiners playing the victim.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Get the Rev. Al to help you out. He's good with whiners playing the victim.

LOL

Walt

[stainlessbanner]

I went to a Catholic H.S. in Queens and heard the epithets "Jew Bastard" and "Nigger" more times than I'd care to remember.

Sadly, I have heard many similar stories about the North (PA, NH, and even Mass.). I honestly believe that in the South, we had to rely on each other and help each other after the War. Over the years, we (black and white) have earned respect for each other and learned to embrace our neighbors as brothers.

We don't need outsiders telling us how to get along, we don't need diversity programs! I think most Southerners would say, "we don't care how you did it back home, let us alone!"

I have to laugh at the irony of people that complain about the South and then move down here to raise a family.

[Phantom Lord]

My personal experience is that the most racist people I know are yankees who vote democrat. And usually members of a union.

[wasp69]

And we dont need to get into how the old south felt about Jews.

Oh please, enlightened one, do tell us how the Old South felt about the Jews.

[Phantom Lord]

bout the same as the north did the irish.

Find me the 'blue blood' clubs that allowed Jews.

[stainlessbanner]

Sadly that's the reality, but the media likes to portray a good 'ol boy in a trailer with a battle flag as the wife beating racist. I guess the latter is a more colorful example than a Democratic Union-member!

[Lee'sGhost]

I think you have to put "the" in front of it for it to work right.

[wasp69]

Reckon ya'll need tuh apologize for slav'ry too sir/ma'am.

Why should we? It was authorized in the North, encouraged by great Northern Religous Leaders such as Cotton Mather, built the cities of Boston, New York, and Providence, was carried on by Northern Shipping Companies until the war broke out in direct violation of the US Constitution, and was perpetuated as the law of the land until 9 months after General Lee surrendered.

Now, I'm sorry, what were you saying?