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.
The truth is that the majority has at last gotten off of their front porch rocking chairs and SPOKEN.
What you can't seen to deal with is MAJORITY RULE.
The libs have decided it is hate and they wont back away from that, they are war mongering history idiots. These people are so stupid and so much about keeping their own priviledges of opinion making and gay/multicultural affinities, that they will not accept those defending their livelyhoods, rights, families and personal survival heritage.
They think they are fighting against hate, they are only drawing the blood of war in time of peace. The Southern flag is a non-issue save in the skulls of obstinate stubborn morons who cannot understand that states can have personal ties they dont have with other states. THey still do not get a clue that those who fight to end wars, whether coming from the South or the NOrth, have a say in this. ANd you bet that families of Southern veterans do have a say in the importance of peace, rights and keeping priviledges, for what it's worth, not some ignoramus migrant who just pops in there and starts trouble.
The priviledges abandoned by the South were some state rights, slavery but certainly not the flag and Southern heritage, a perfect right. Yet liberals will insist that their priviledged status give them the moral upper hand in fighting for their own personal priviledges against the rights of others who have violated no right and show no such intention as to spread cults of right violation. It is indeed a priviledge for such scumy liberals to call Southerners yahoos and impose coercively views that fatten their wallets and personal political standing.
The arrogant idiots who wrote this article are completely ignoring beautiful Northern Georgia. Helen and Taccoa Falls and other places there are clear evidence the "Creative Loafing dudes are 'out to lunch'.
Migawd, what a piece of race-baiting tripe!
Oh sure. This whole article is a libelous smear on white southerners, and the moron who wrote it has the chutzpah to say this? I'm just sure David Scott and Denise Majette would have been elected on their sterling credentials if they were white. What a joke.
But that's OK Walt baby, I think everyone here has learned just how much you hate southerners, hate the south and hate those people who want to be free to associate with whom they wish and not have the government plunder the fruit of their labors and squander the loot on it's racial favorites.
Every time you post some type of garbage like this your credibility drops further into the negative zone. I can't understand why you don't move to NYC or Boston. There are a lot more liberals there who think just like you do, and I'm sure you'd feel a lot more comfortable. You could spew forth your hate of all things southern to people who appreciate it.
Neither could the so-called CSA.
Walt
Black or white (especially if he's white), this ignorant fool needs his ass kicked.
I'm as southern as anybody. I was born and raised in Chattanooga. My mother's people all come from Cleburne County, Alabama. I had relatives in the 31st Alabama infantry. My father's people are all from west Tennessee. I had at least one relative at Shiloh and a distant relative captured here in Atlanta at the Battle of Peachtree Creek.
I just find absolute falsehood distasteful, and that's all you'll get from the League of the South or the SCV.
The LOS had a "humor" link to a site that glorified John Wilkes Booth. Does that strike you funny?
You know, 31,000 Tennesseans fought for the Union. There were only 400 Georgia Unionists. How does that make you feel, living in the USA and all?
There is no way to separate the CSA battle emblem from racism, treason, slavery -- and just being pitiful clueless losers. I'm sorry it doesn't suit you that I refuse to identify with that.
Walt
Guess you just forgot.......................again. Give it up, Walt. You aren't convincing anyone, and I hate to be the one to tell ya, but you aren't authorized to rewrite history.
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