I am proud to be a Southerner. Contrary to what outsiders believe, being Southern entails a lot more than residing in the South, being an alumnus of a college in Dixie, drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon (People’s Beer of Richmond), eating fried catfish, sipping bourbon, gorging at Cracker Barrel, or slapping a NASCAR sticker on your SUV. Any Yankee, liberal, or Reconstructed “Southerner” can do those things (please note that the words “Yankee” and “liberal” are virtually interchangeable.) No amount of superficiality, or affectation of Southern charm, can turn a Yankee into a Southerner. A Turk doesn’t magically become a Frenchman because he admires baguettes.
Being Southern is both a cultural identity and a unique ethnicity that comes from being born and raised in Dixie and, very importantly, by parents born and raised in Dixie. The more generations of your family that have lived their entire lives in the South – breathing her air, eating her food (grown out of our Southern soil), speaking the tongue of Dixie, and absorbing her culture – the more Southern you are. Southerners have a reverence for, and a devotion to, a way of life that includes keeping one’s word, manners and decorum, respecting tradition, devotion to Christianity, and applying a practical, common-sense approach to life. All real Southerners have the same rugged, warrior spirit and love of personal freedom as did the great men who founded this nation. Real Southerners are not socialists or feminists authoritarians.
Unfortunately, those qualities are sorely lacking in other parts of the country, as well as, parts of Dixie transformed by modernity. They have “swallowed the dog” so many times over, that the degradation has become routine. Real Southerners do not sell out. We take our stand, despite the odds of success. But to prevail, we must stand together. That includes our Southern youth. They must pick up the standard and join the fray. They must abandon drugs, degenerate music, body piercings, tattoos, political correctness, atheism, nihilism and all the other corrosive trappings of the liberal, Yankee “culture.” The young rebels of today are the future of the South, if she is to have one at all.
In no small part, our future hinges on the protection of our beloved flag. That flag is sacred to all genuine Southerners, our roots are connected to that flag. Those roots extend deep into the same soil that soaked up the blood of those who fell fighting under that flag. Their blood and sacrifice will not be denied their rightful place in the fabric of our past, present, and future. Those patriots live on as long as we remember and honor them. We will not tolerate any attempt to dishonor, disavow, or deny them. Their ghosts implore us to have the same steadfastness and strength of conviction that they had. We must be worthy of them.
Make no mistake, Dixie is under attack from without and within. Contrary to liberal propaganda, it is the North, rather than the South, that cannot move on. Those unfortunate souls born and raised above the Mason-Dixon Line (or carpetbagging meddlers in our midst) will always look with envious eyes at our Southern pride, heritage, and culture. That envy, or “sour grapes,” is what drives the Yankee efforts to destroy Dixie. While the South thrives, the North rusts and its social experiment, integration, lies in ruins. Point of fact, the South never had any real racial problems until troublemakers traveled here and stirred up trouble. “Trouble” appears to be the North’s chief export.
Yankees are jealous because the North does not have the rich culture that the South does. What is Yankee culture anyway? Is it gay pride parades, rude people, bad food, traffic congestion, and plastic furniture? It sure seems that way. Immigration, forced integration, and poor policy decisions have left the North a social, moral, and economic wasteland. Just look at the U.S. automobile industry. Pontiac, Plymouth, Oldsmobile, and Mercury are gone due to poor management and the manufacture of lousy vehicles. To keep the remaining American auto brands afloat, company executives run to their cronies in the federal government for bailout funds. Of course, we, Southern taxpayers, get stuck with the bill.
Meanwhile, as Detroit circles the drain, South Carolinians build BMWs in partnership with Germany, the recognized leader in efficiency, craftsmanship, and quality. It is noteworthy that BMW did not build its factory in Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or New York. We Southerners know how to build cars, we know how to fix cars, and we know how to race cars. NASCAR started here. It is ours. Now, there are Toyotas in NASCAR and there is something very wrong with that. For those who can afford to attend a NASCAR race, don’t expect to see many Confederate flags. To be sure, that is not just wrong, it is a travesty. But let’s be honest here, NASCAR is a shadow of its former self and is almost completely irrelevant today. There is no relationship between what is on the track and what is in the dealers’ showrooms. The old adage “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday” is no longer valid. It all started with getting rid of the Winston Cup, but that’s a story for another day.
The lesson here is this – whenever the original concept, or qualities, of anything are compromised, that “thing” no longer exists or is rendered invalid. This was never more true than in the case of the United States. Indeed, it has strayed far afield from its original concept. Keep in mind that this country was born out of rebellion. Rebellion is the seed from which all freedoms flow. Yet today, rebellion and the love of freedom are either discouraged or met with outright hostility whenever it doesn’t conform to “political correctness.” Political correctness is a sick joke that Southerners just don’t get—and don’t want to get.
Political correctness is a Yankee creation. To counter it, we must tirelessly promote our Southern, conservative, and rebellious values. Call them Dixie Values. We cannot hide our heads in the sand. All those below the Mason–Dixon Line, who cherish freedom, tradition, and societal sanity, have a job to do. Accordingly, we must rebel against the eradication of history. We must rebel against the destruction of our revered symbols and landmarks. We must rebel against the dilution of our culture. We must rebel against any effort to change who we are. We must rebel against the modern world.
We are Southerners. We are proud of that fact. And, we are here to stay.
-By Luther
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
I fully support Southern nationalism and always have. But this is just poor writing; juvenile polemics, at best. It is obvious this was written by someone very young, with a lot of genuine zeal but very limited life experience. For starters, political correctness is most certainly not an invention of the yankee North. It was a Jewish invention imported to this land and thrust upon its people, north and south, by force. It is as foreign to the North as it is below the Mason-Dixon.
Let’s get one thing straight: a yankee is a New Englander. Period. Historically, that is what that word has always been. The white people of North America, be they Yankee or Southron, Tidewater or Midwestie, are, collectively, an English-speaking people. We are a people of the Anglosphere. Just because liberalism has hijacked the organic culture of the North does not mean it will always be that way. Besides, what you describe is the vapid, over crowded strip mall/chain restaurant culture of the North’s urban centers. But move further inland away from these cities and you have a rural, downhome Anglo-Celtic/Anglo-Teutonic Christian culture (if only nominally in certain areas). Have you ever even been to New Hampshire? It’s as white, Christian, rural, and politically red/conservative as Arkansas, perhaps even more so. Even Maine is, for the most part, very rural and very conservative. New England, contrary to popular belief is actually summed up best like this: a majority poor, white,conservative Christian population ruled and abused by a tiny, urbanite judeo-liberal minority. Even the inlands of Massachusetts, contrary to popular belief, are not at all what you might think. Are you familiar with Shay’s Rebellion? That predated the War Between the States by roughly 80 years. And yet, it was practically a microcosm of the same story. I understand your hatred of the soulless, kosher liberal-progressive culture of urban death that plagues much of the urban, coastal North. But your history is very bad if you think its somehow native or at all representative of what it once was. True, the transcendentalist and abolitionist movements started there. But remember, it was a tiny minority pushing that. Most of the regular folks, the backbone of that region, the salt-of-the-earth folks, they wanted nothing to do with it.
I don’t understand your criticisms. First of all, Yankeedom comprises more territory than the New England states simply by virtue of the fact that many of the sons and daughters of the original New England settlers migrated westward, ultimately settling in Ohio and Michigan, parts of New York, the Dakotas and so on. So to say that a Yankee is a New Englander, period, is not factually correct.
Moreover, and secondly, those radical movements you mention did in fact begin in New England, as you state. They also merely began as “tiny minorities.” No real surprise there. I mean, most big movements I can think of off the top of my head start out as tiny minorities. Some of them fizzle out, and some of them grow into “mighty” movements, comprising at least large minorities if not majorities. By 1860 this seems to have been the case in the Yankee states with respect to Radical Abolitionism in particular.
I can cite numerous sources in confirmation of that view, but for the time being I’ll cite only two: Origins of the Late War, by George Lunt, and an essay titled The Northern Mind and Character, published in the Nov., 1860, issue of The Southern Literary Messenger. See the following link for the latter. As to the former, there is a Kindle edition available for a very reasonable price.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acf2679.0031.005/375:6?rgn=full+text;view=image
Great job, Luther, my sentiments exactly!
“political correctness is most certainly not an invention of the yankee North. It was a Jewish invention imported to this land ”
I am fairly sure this is wrong. The Western Allies helped the Jews to create Israel after WW2. This is because the US already had a large population of Jews, who were even then influential in American society at a level far beyond their numbers. New York, for example is heavily Jewish-influenced, especially in and near The City.
If PC is a Jewish invention, it was invented in NY or Cali.