I’m a recent reader of the site who found it by way of Occidental Dissent and Chateau Heartiste. Being a Yankee, I’m not a Southerner, hence the site was never on my radar initially. But that being said, I have tremendous commonality with Southerners. Genetically, I’m similar to the Appalachian hillfolk: Irish, Scottish, and Welsh on both sides, and even a fair amount of Cherokee Injun from Cold Mountain, North Carolina. Only through the cruel caprices of fate did my my great-great-great grandfather end up fighting against his own kinfolk in the War of Northern Aggression.
The article about the Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy taking down the Confederate Battle Flag struck a chord with me. It was a gesture that even stung for me, a defeat even more ignominious than Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. A battle lost without even fighting in the first place. So, in this vein, I proudly don the Gray in spirit and pick up the cause for Dixie and stretch the territory westward all the way to the Rocky Mountains.
Growing up, I was fascinated by military history and weapons, so I naturally learned about the Civil War. But, I had an utterly neutral reaction towards the Confederacy. I learned about the Whitworth and Berdan Snipers, the stalemate of the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor. What I didn’t learn, until I entered the indoctrination factory of public school, was the emotionalized rhetoric that the Confederacy was a regime of “evil slavers” – which is entirely and maliciously false.
Only through the lens of retrospect can you truly expose the lies of the past, and safely declare the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression. As a region, the South was an agricultural superpower that the North required. But, as the Federal government has always been wont to do, it wanted something for nothing and they wanted to impose an excise tax and pay for the commodities on margin. The war of morality was entirely about economics and sending a brutal message about secession and personal liberty.
My family’s coat of arms bears the Anglicized version of “carbadoir,” Gaelic for charioteer and “Libertas.” Being an unruly Celt is in my blood and spirit, and it was what defined the Confederacy. I find more of my values reflected by Southerners than liberal Yankee transplants in my beloved high mountain desert. And this is the nature of nature, Southerners love their land as I do. I grew up in the woods, I grew up smelling fresh cut grass on a baseball field. One of my favorite gifts was my own Swiss Army knife.
Instead of capitulating to the demands of a different people and culture – like the bugman geek with the BLM sign I saw on a streetcorner today – I stand with my own. Not that I ever did before, I will never speak an ill word about Dixie or Southerners and will rebuke anyone who does. I’d proudly fly the Confederate Battle Flag knowing that it stood for resistance against tyranny.
Y’all are good people, a worthy cause never dies or surrenders if it keeps winning new hearts.
-By Lycurgus
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.
Westerners to me, anyway, aren’t Yankees. The South and the Transmississippi West, and even the interior of California, Oregon and Washington State, are natural political allies.
And I’m not the first or only one to notice this.
Excellent, Mr. Owen – let us stand with with our cousins, distant kinsmen, and like-minded souls, to preserve and restore our rightful way of life, as we wade deeper and deeper into this ever expanding conflagration!
@Author…
“Being a Yankee, I’m not a Southerner, hence the site was never on my radar initially.”
The Northern Cause, during the war that took place between 1861-1877, was one of the worst in history. Essentially it undermined the whole republic and set us on course to where we are today – 50 countries that are suffocating under a corrupt overly centralized government composed of unelected and uncontsitutional bureaucracies that, incapable of following the law, meddle diabolically in the affairs of practically every place on the globe.
It is not necessary for you to be a Southerner for you to be welcomed in our ranks.
Moreover, you do not know where you were before this life. Perhaps you were one of us in birth, as well.
In any case, though I do not agree with the overall flow of Northeastern Society, I have known many good good-ole-boy types all over The North who recognize that the fight The South made, has made, and is continuing to make, is right.
The whole lynchpin to The American Experiment is held within the now neglected opening words of the 10th Amendment – “Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence.”
Those words were put in there not just because of what Southern States wanted, but, because of Northern, too – though New England soon got off course with Unitarianism, abolitionism, and all the -isms that distinguish lunacy.
Why, if this 10th amendment were respected for what it is, most of the problems we have today would either be much smaller or not there at all.
Huge unions that do not respect the sovereignty of it’s smaller states are magnets for tyranny, as we see not only in Washington, but, in Bruxelles, as well.
So, though there will always be a small percentage of us who does not accept you in our ranks, the overwhelming majority of us will.
Thank you for taking the leap. We will need every one of you in the coming years!
Glad to see the article was well received!
I’m well aware of the hypocrisy of the Federal Government and have even more respect for the true patriots like Patrick Henry.
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https://starvingthemonkeys.com/articles/HologramOfLiberty.html
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Knowing the history of that damnable traitor Alexander Hamilton, he’d probably relish in the vibrant urban pastiche bearing his name.
This is the crux of the Yankee way of life though. Big acquisitive cities full of decadence and novel spectacle. A lifestyle that is the antithesis of natural.
As the Antifa movement is bearing out, the ugly spirit of Communism never died. Conversely, neither did the triumphant Rebel spirit. Any movement that attracts new support is still alive.
@Author…
“I Would Have Stood With Dixie”
You may just get your chance, because, as the cities of The Northeast, and their vampirella-child, The Coastal Northwest, follow their spiritual trajectories to their zeniths in places like Seattle and Minneapolis, a now recalcitrant South is more and more going to be left holding The United States’ bag, along with smalltown and rural cousins all over the place, including the good-ole-boys in The Northeast.
Though this country still tends to be at least 4-5 different regional countries of their own, the real working dividing line is between urban and Smalltown America.
Nothing more clear about that than those events in recent days of would-be rioters streaming out of their cities looking for rural fodder, only to be dissuaded by White Men who were not going to have it – and this story was the same everywhere in the continental U.S.
I too am a Yankee, Nutmeg/Constitution State, and support the South. I’d just like to ask something: Since there were copperheads who supported the CSA during the War, perhaps it should be retitled The War of Lincoln’s Treason?
@Paul…
How about : ——- ‘ Lincoln’s war against America?’
By the way, welcome. Thank you so much for being with us. We are with you!
Thanks! Dad and I are hoping to get the hell out of this liberal hell and two sites chosen are southern states. Hope, if we go south, we can be accepted but most likely we’ll be heading west. He has (diminishing) family there. Came from a very large family and now only four-five siblings are left.
@Paul…
You are very very welcome. Please consider North Carolina.
We have a strong diversified economy, polite, friendly, and endlessly civil people.
We are very welcoming towards those who share our values, and, a few years after you’ve been here, you’ll wonder how you ever could have been anywhere else!
Our weather is unexcelled and our landscape full of everything from beaches, bays, swamps, hills, valleys, and beautiful mountains.
Raleigh is probably the best city in the country for resettling, as the town has a very pleasant dimeanour, great shopping, lots to do, and there are already many Northerners there.
In any case, best of luck to y’all!
Truth of History is always in the Grey
Regarding Lincoln and posterity, he saw our current plight…
The ‘Great Emancipator’ and the Issue of Race
Abraham Lincoln’s Program of Black Resettlement
By Robert Morgan
“Many Americans think of Abraham Lincoln, above all, as the president who freed the slaves. Immortalized as the “Great Emancipator,” he is widely regarded as a champion of black freedom who supported social equality of the races, and who fought the American Civil War (1861-1865) to free the slaves.
While it is true that Lincoln regarded slavery as an evil and harmful institution, it is also true, as this paper will show, that he shared the conviction of most Americans of his time, and of many prominent statesmen before and after him, THAT BLACKS COULD NOT BE ASSIMILATED INTO WHITE SOCIETY (Indeed, this was always known and those people Re used as a dialectical bludgeon for toward global political economy and gain of, by, and for the sole benefit of transnational usury cartel operating even prior to Lincoln’s day, see Lincoln’s use of no -interest bearing sovereign currency circumventing the transnational, now supranational usury cartel).
Lincoln rejected the notion of social equality of the races, and held to the view that blacks should be resettled abroad. As President, he supported projects to remove blacks from the United States.” ~ http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html
I’ve noticed the main criticism of Southerners is too imply they’re rebels and not a sovereign nation as they attempted to be, done to delegitimize Southern people as traitorous to form the foundation to the entire ‘prequel to the third Reich’ narrative.
It’s laughable when Southerners are used as a scapegoat for every ill within America then in the next breath it’s claimed they’re American citizens with no individual identity, simply a group of hysterically racist renegades in some war no one really understands now.
Even when I use the term ‘southerners’ it might be unjustly grouping together a lot of different groups who intended to form a nation of their own but ended up being absorbed into the USA.
Going to use this article to disclose that I’m not Southern however this is one of the only sites doing a good job covering a wide variety of topics, I suppose having outside supporters is good but I wouldn’t want to detract from the main message of the site / organisation.
@Gray…
“I’ve noticed the main criticism of Southerners is too imply they’re rebels and not a sovereign nation as they attempted to be, done to delegitimize Southern people as traitorous to form the foundation to the entire ‘prequel to the third Reich’ narrative.”
Unfortunately, Gray, there are some non-Southerners who cannot see anyone in the world trying to live outside of their ways, and, hence, when anyone else does not go their way, those people get awarded a pejorative sobriquet.
Just watch the national news and it is filled full of derogatory terms for everyone, and every country and kind who does not agree with the current United States’ Way.
Apparently we are livin’ in a world full of ‘Rebels’….
Lincoln was America’s Lenin, with his regime, complete with Marxist “Forty-eighters” from the big failed communist revolution in Europe studding his administration.
Not exactly, There are two forms of political economy, one national the (((international)))) …
Truth of History is always in the Grey
Regarding Lincoln and posterity, he saw our current plight…
The ‘Great Emancipator’ and the Issue of Race
Abraham Lincoln’s Program of Black Resettlement
By Robert Morgan
“Many Americans think of Abraham Lincoln, above all, as the president who freed the slaves. Immortalized as the “Great Emancipator,” he is widely regarded as a champion of black freedom who supported social equality of the races, and who fought the American Civil War (1861-1865) to free the slaves.
While it is true that Lincoln regarded slavery as an evil and harmful institution, it is also true, as this paper will show, that he shared the conviction of most Americans of his time, and of many prominent statesmen before and after him, THAT BLACKS COULD NOT BE ASSIMILATED INTO WHITE SOCIETY (Indeed, this was always known and those people are used as a dialectical bludgeon toward global political economy and gain of, by, and for the sole benefit of transnational usury cartel operating even prior to Lincoln’s day, see Lincoln’s use of non-interest bearing sovereign currency circumventing the transnational, now supranational usury cartel).
Lincoln rejected the notion of social equality of the races, and held to the view that blacks should be resettled abroad. As President, he supported projects to remove blacks from the United States.” ~ http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html
Not exactly, There are two forms of political economy, one national the other (((international)))) …
Truth of History is always in the Grey
Regarding Lincoln and posterity, he saw our current plight…
The ‘Great Emancipator’ and the Issue of Race
Abraham Lincoln’s Program of Black Resettlement
By Robert Morgan
“Many Americans think of Abraham Lincoln, above all, as the president who freed the slaves. Immortalized as the “Great Emancipator,” he is widely regarded as a champion of black freedom who supported social equality of the races, and who fought the American Civil War (1861-1865) to free the slaves.
While it is true that Lincoln regarded slavery as an evil and harmful institution, it is also true, as this paper will show, that he shared the conviction of most Americans of his time, and of many prominent statesmen before and after him, THAT BLACKS COULD NOT BE ASSIMILATED INTO WHITE SOCIETY (Indeed, this was always known and those people are used as a dialectical bludgeon toward global political economy and gain of, by, and for the sole benefit of transnational usury cartel operating even prior to Lincoln’s day, see Lincoln’s use of non-interest bearing sovereign currency circumventing the transnational, now supranational usury cartel).
Lincoln rejected the notion of social equality of the races, and held to the view that blacks should be resettled abroad. As President, he supported projects to remove blacks from the United States.” ~ http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html