Posted on 11/26/2002 2:36:03 AM PST by WhiskeyPapa
Hell fire, y'all! White folks done voted to take Georgia back 40 years!
Well, that's it. The (white) people of Georgia have spoken, and they've told us that the confederate flag is more important than anything else in the world. And make no mistake, folks -- as far as the governor's race was concerned, it was all about the state flag. Angry rural white people turned out at the polls in numbers not seen since the days of Lester Maddox to vent their fury at that danged ol' Liberal King Rat Roy Barnes.
What you heard on Nov. 5 was not a Republican earthquake. It was the sound of progressive men like William B. Hartsfield and Robert Woodruff and Charles Weltner rolling over in their graves. For the first time in a generation, the reins of Georgia government have been handed over to a wide-eyed hick who proudly panders to the neo-confederate crowd, a shadowy and racist gang of baccer-chewin' morons most city folks had believed to be extinct, if not permanently powerless.
And now these clueless crackers are running amok, planning to embarrass us all by restoring the confederate emblem to the state flag and transforming zombie-like Democratic state Senators into right-wing Republicans by the busload. And it's all being orchestrated by Ralph Reed. God help us.
History books say that Eugene Talmadge, the legendary race-baiting Georgia governor, often boasted of the fact that he'd "never carried a county with a streetcar." It was a pretentious rejection of modernity, as if being backwards was somehow a worthy attribute. But the Talmadge following was comprised of an ignorant gaggle of bumpkins and Klan-affiliated rednecks, so I guess there is a legitimate comparison to what happened to Georgia on Nov. 5. Just like "Ol' Gene," Perdue's victory came from an overwhelmingly rural base.
I am old enough to remember the Georgia countryside in the late 1960s, when "Maddox Country" signs were plentiful. I'd foolishly believed for most of my life that those days of racist politics in Georgia were long gone. When "Sonny Country" signs bearing the confederate flag began popping up earlier this year, it worried me -- but not seriously. "Surely we have progressed beyond such foolishness," I said to myself.
Well, I was wrong, by God. Yee-haw!
Of course, suburban Republicans are now spinning their asses off, swearing to anyone who will listen that Perdue's election had nothing to do with race or the flag, but was actually due to Barnes' alleged "arrogance," a charge that anyone who has met the governor knows to be ridiculous. But try as they might to muddy the waters, establishment Republicans cannot dispute the shocking and disturbing videotape of Perdue supporters waving confederate flags on election night as the governor-elect mocked the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Nor can they deny the backwater election demographics, or the legions of gloating boneheads from racist groups like the Sons of the Confederate Veterans and the League of the South, all of them taking credit for Perdue's victory.
Yes friends, the sleeping giant redneck has awakened, and he don't give a damn about what uppity colored folks think about the confederate flag. He's out stomping across Georgia like some kind of mutant yokel Godzilla, wreaking humiliation and destruction upon our hard-earned image as an enlightened place to do business.
To their credit, Democrats didn't play the race card during the election. And if they had, they would've probably been screwed anyway. It's tough to battle against a race-bating enemy like state GOP chairman Reed, who once said, "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag."
Reed and his Republican nightriders may have lynched Barnes -- but at what price? This klutzy clan has painted itself into a corner: If they put the flag to a vote, the state will pay mightily. If they don't, the rednecks will revolt, and the world may be subjected to a petulant spectacle of white-trash madness not seen since Sherman lit a match.
Either way, Georgia's hard-won image as the progressive leader of the south will suffer.
Jeff Berry is buying up confederate flags as fast as he can -- and burning them.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
I gave you a source, and you chose not to believe it in spite of overwhelming evidence ie the federal government existed and spent money prior to 1860. "Arguing" with a fanatic like you is like trying to teach a pig to sing: it wastes your time, annoys the pig, and the pig never learns to sing. Happy rooting.
free dixie,sw
southrons need NO advice from non-southrons, period. end of story.
also we southrons want no advice from scalawags like walt.
within 6 months of inaugration day in GA, the traditional flag will wave from every public building in GA!
free dixie,sw
How long before Georgia seperates from the USA?
we also called, wrote & e-mailed every person we had even heard of in SC & GA to vote against the scalawags. not bad for an organization of 33,000 men.
we also were the MAIN reason that scalawag hodges in SC is the EX-governor.
EVERY southern politician MUST LEARN that they MUST support the CSA flag, our memorials to our hero-martyrs & our separate culture or LOSE!
for dixie,sw
BOTH the pre-1955 flag and the post-1955 flags were designed by William Porcher Miles in 1862 and BOTH were carried proudly into battle by GA troops during the WBTS.
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
You're the one wallering, lad.
You sugggest as a source the Salem, MA customs house post 1776.
Well, the Articles of Confederation were adopted in 1779 and operated as law until Washington was inurguated in 1790.
That customs house collected ZERO revenue of ANY type for the federal government before 1790 --because the Articles DID NOT ALLOW for federal taxes, tariffs or revenue gathering of -any- type.
You don't know the history, or you are willfully misrepresenting the facts.
sooooooooo---weeeeeeeeeee
Now, or course the federal government spent money prior to 1860 and the source of the vast majority of that money was tariffs on imported goods only. Taxes/tariffs etc. are PROHIBITED on the products of any state per the Constitution. It might interest you to know that the so-called CSA DID tax STATE EXPORTS -- for emphasis, this practice is forbiden in U.S. law.
Walt
Get back to me when I fabricate a quote from an historical figure -- the way you did.
Walt
Is that what SJ stands for?
Walt
I was your willfully false statement that the federal government didn't collect any taxes prior to 1860 not 1790.
You are the one who is "willfully misrepresenting the facts." If you don't have the intellectual honesty to not try and weasel out of what you said I don't have the inclination to discuss anything with you. I happen to know that they collected federal taxes there because I was there and took the tour. Did you ever visit the place? Sorry if this conflicts with your imagination. Just how do you think the fedgov was paid for prior to 1860 - charitable donations? Enjoy yer rootin' because you ain't never going to learn how to sing.
Heck, I'll take that bet. The way this goober is tap dancing on the issue I think it'll take him longer than 6 months to locate enough spine to make the switch.
Nah.
Maybe the guy that wrote this -is- a transplanted Yankee.
Hail, ever body knows they's nothing but libertines up in 'Lanna, any how.
Walt
There were no federal taxes prior to 1860.
There was nothing you HAD to pay the federal government.
YOU suggested we check out the -many- items that were taxed as the Salem, MA customs house post 1776 -- that was false or distorted-- whether you knew it or not, which, on your behalf, I tend to doubt.
Walt
There were NO FEDERAL TAXES IN 1860.
The south had made sure they were all removed.
Tariffs on imported goods are not taxes. You can always buy domestic.
Walt
You can consider that tariffs weren't taxes, but I don't think anyone here will agree with you.
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