Rude, Crude Yankees = Good Useful Idiots

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

[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.

[stainlessbanner]

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

Bwaaaahaahaha!

[Phantom Lord]

Ok, now imagine where you'd be without nukes. (Invented in the South)

By foreigners!

[Free the USA]

fyi

[arm958]

"No, my ancestors just paid for it."

I doubt that.

Yankee tax dollars paid for rural electrification, which gave you Yankee invented electric light and Yankee invented air conditioning.

[billbears]

bump

[Shooter 2.5]

You do realize that the participants of the Civil War are all dead, don't you?

[Phantom Lord]

South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year

Above: Three of the estimated 45 million
Southerners who have not yet gotten
around to rising again.

[Restorer]

>>Ok, now imagine where you'd be without nukes. (Invented in the South)

The two places the bomb can claim to be invented are most likely Chicago, IL and Los Alamos, NM.

Lots of places worked on it. My understanding is that southern areas were primarily involved in refinement of the plutomium and uranium, not the development of the bomb from these materials.

[Phantom Lord]

And when the Light House at Cape Hatteras NC needed to be moved so it would be saved from the encroaching ocean guess who they called to do the job?

YANKEES from Buffalo NY!

The same company is now saving the Lucky Strike chimney in Durham NC.

[My2Cents]

There's nothing to apologize for. Lincoln saved the union, and the Civil War ended slavery. The Confederacy wanted to end the former, and perpetuate the latter. All this crap about "states' rights" and the protection of "liberty" would mean something if the South had actually stood for something other than the enslavement of fellow human beings.

[Desdemona]

"When are these people going to stop fighting the Civil War?"

"When the Yankees admit that they were (criminally) wrong and give an abject apology."

That war, IMO, was inevitable from the beginning. Research the people involved in the Revolution and their efforts to bring education, among other things, to the tidewater states. The cultural differences (not including the plantation and slave system) are still there and neither side is showing signs of changing. Artillery won't break out again in the near future, but that war's not over.

And my ancestors weren't even here yet....

[HELLRAISER II]

You do realize that all of us down south are not the frigging idiots you have pictured here, anymore than all Yankees are useful idiots. Let's face it, some people are jerkwads from either side. Bottomline, that was then this is now. I'm a good Ol'boy, but i'm an American good Ol'boy.

[My2Cents]

Good point. Had the Confederacy succeeded, today it would be a backward third-world country that would make Mexico look like the height of civilization. A nation built upon the principle of slavery was corrupt from the start, and doomed to further degeneration.

[dead]

Al Benson Jr. says,
“Yankees am dumb and whatnot.
Now where my sistah get at?
I’m fixin’ fer some luvin.”

[billbears]

Yankee tax dollars paid for rural electrification

Tax dollars shouldn't go to pay for anything of the sort. That is something that is a private industry issue and before the war was illegal under every state Constitution as well as the general government.

[rdb3]

Mr, Benson, the year is 2002. Step into the present. C'mon! You can do it!

[Dakmar]

When the Yankees admit that they were (criminally) wrong and give an abject apology.

We don't do 'abject' for anyone. Try holding your breath, that might bring about an apology, or at least you won't care after about 8 minutes if you do it right. :-)

[billbears]

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?

This one's even better. I'm not going to comment. LOL!!!

[Hanging Chad]

Mr. Carrier simply stole his idea from John Gorrie (a Southerner).
Jonn Gorrie
"The Apalachicola River's rich floodplains attracted many settlers during the 1800s and played an important role in the development of the town of Apalachicola. A customs office was opened in 1821; and by the time a young physician named John Gorrie arrived in 1833, Apalachicola was already flourishing as the third largest port on the Gulf, harboring ships carrying cotton back to Europe and New England. During his residence, Gorrie served as mayor, postmaster, city treasurer, council member, bank director and founder of Trinity Church. His most significant work however, was in medicine. During an outbreak of yellow fever, Gorrie's concern for patients ill with the disease led him to develop a method for cooling their rooms. Gorrie invented a machine that produced ice, laying the groundwork for modern refrigeration and air-conditioning. Gorrie died in 1855, unable to market his invention and witness the far-reaching effects of his discovery."