Celebrate Dixie, Not The United States

Once more, it was time to launch fireworks, cook barbecue (or grill and call it a barbecue), and pretend we live in a free country.  Over the past few years, it has struck me as increasingly odd that celebrations are happening. Why celebrate a country that isn’t yours? 

Who should celebrate after all? It doesn’t make sense for the blacks. They’re constantly talking about why they don’t love the country.  Whether the NFL taking the knee in response to “police brutality,” Gwendolyn Berry refusing to put her hand on her heart at Olympic competitions, or black militias that put fear in the community, it doesn’t appear any of them have any love for the United States because of the “oppression” they face.  Side note: it always makes me laugh when blacks pretend they are the most oppressed group in the country when they can burn down cities and get positive coverage from almost every media outlet.

What’s even funnier about the 4th of July this year is that various cities in the country canceled the 4th of July fireworks but were sure to celebrate Juneteenth and allow gay pride parades.  Think about that for a minute.  Celebrating the country is less important than celebrating black criminality and homosexuality.  Then again, a government that would make such decisions deserves no loyalty from you.

This is also a country where the government protects drag queen story hour but not people protesting transexuals exposing themselves to children.  This is a country which is getting rid of small farmers and making sure billionaires and foreign interests can buy up all the arable land.  This is a country where major news networks like the Washington Post will call the Founding Fathers racist, NPR will call the Declaration of Independence racist, and CNN will actively praise genocidal communist regimes.           

As this and other Western countries pretend to become more “inclusive,” they are simply becoming less Christian, less traditional, and less white.  For instance, Canada is apparently making Summer Sodomy Season.  I’m sure that suggestion is going to come through the DNC soon enough here. 

As the American Empire becomes more anti-white generally and anti-Southern specifically, it is continually making less and less sense for us to salute the U.S. flag or to celebrate U.S. holidays like the 4th of July.  And no, I’m not advocating changing the flag like Macy Gray suggested.  I’m asking why should we celebrate the independence from Britain when the successor state has been all the more oppressive to us? 

There are three options I see.  Relabel the holiday, move the holiday far away, or move the holiday to a close date to it.  Of course, Confederate Memorial Day already exists, but I’m advocating something more to clearly separate from the 4th of July since it’s basically celebrating Sodom and Gomorrah.  Also, it’s not as if we can’t have multiple days.  Confederate Memorial Day is to celebrate those who died fighting for our freedom.  A new holiday, say Southern Heritage Day or Dixie Day, will be to celebrate more broadly our history, our ancestors, and our future.

July 4th does have independent significance from Independence Day.  It’s the date of the Louisiana Purchase, the date Jefferson and Adams died, and as Harmonica already pointed out, it’s also the last day of the terrible Siege of Vicksburg.  That alone may be reason not to try to keep the date.  Additionally, while it is easier to just choose to celebrate other things on the 4th, the problem is you’re still going to be celebrating at the same time as folks celebrating “American Independence.”  You’ll see a lot of others celebrating the same day the same way for different reasons, which sends mixed messages.

Celebrating a date far away from the 4th would certainly avoid any confusion about why we’re celebrating, but families like cooking out in good weather and fireworks.  Realistically, we would need to keep a traditional Southern holiday for the summertime.

Possibly the easiest solution is to stop celebrating the 4th of July and Thanksgiving, instead celebrating the Jamestown founding (May 14) as the summer holiday with fireworks and St. Andrew’s Feast Day (November 30th) as a fall feast to connect with Southern Identity.    

St. Andrew’s feast day isn’t a random choice.  St. Andrew’s Cross is the basis for many of the Confederate and Southern flags.  Additionally, drawing a closer link to St. Andrew makes sense for Dixie.  As far as I’m aware, we don’t have a saint for our people and that is something many Christian nations do have.  Of course, there are also patron saints for the individual states, which is a good thing to keep and embrace, but there’s no reason to not celebrate our shared history and unity through St. Andrew.

Why we would be celebrating the Jamestown founding is fairly obvious.  It’s the first permanent colony the English put in America (earlier than what Thanksgiving celebrates).  Additionally, it’s a celebration of a colony in Virginia, not Massachusetts.  That means it also saves us from celebrating Yankee or Puritan history.

Alternatively, if we wanted to celebrate extremely close to the 4th of July, we could celebrate July 3rd.  It’s another Saint Day, St Thomas the Apostle, and is also the start of the Dog Days of Summer (so is arguably even more tied with celebrating the onset of good weather).  More for our history, it’s the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg.  While that certainly adds a bitterness to the date, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  Celebrate the Saints, celebrate our people, and never again let us be defeated by Yankees.

However you decide to celebrate this summer, I hope you stay safe and stay close to your family and keep in mind what’s important.  It isn’t the national Republicans or Democrats. It isn’t supposedly 16 cent cheaper barbecues (particularly when everything else is more expensive). No. Whatever happens to the United States, what matters most remains God, your family, and your community.  

7 comments

  1. Perhaps we could adopt Saint Oswald of Northumbria as our patron saint. Tolkien used him as a model for Aragorn. A “patriot who loved his people,” and who drove the “pagan usurpers” from his lands. He was known as the Whiteblade for his courage in battle.

    https://orthochristian.com/73006.html

    At any rate, there’s an amazing number of remarkable English, Cornish, Welsh, Irish and Scottish saints (the pre-conquest ones are better).

  2. May 14 should be Founding Day, to emphasize Jamestown as the foundation of Dixie as a nation long before the Union existed.

  3. Instead of celebrating the Empire, one could celebrate one’s state (especially if it is one of the original 13) instead.

  4. Jamestown Day sounds like a winner to me. It bypasses appeals to ideology and goes straight to our origin as a distinct people. I think it is all-around excellent and would like to see something next year.

    I’m a little more divided on St Andrews’ Day. The St A cross only became an icon for us because a Confederate Jew didn’t like the St George cross which was the original proposal. We definitely need to do something with MLK day.

    We should just go through the calendar adding, deleting or repurposing existing holidays for our purpose.

  5. For the gentleman who suggested we do something with “MLK Day”, we have always had Robert E. Lee’s Birthday on 19 January. Some of us are old enough to remember when it was celebrated across the South (although it was Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia and Confederate Heroes Day in Texas).
    Personally, I have always thought Saint Andrew would make a fine patron saint of Dixie.
    I do really like a day to celebrate the founding of Jamestown. Although, I prefer Founder’s Day or Settlement Day to Jamestown Day.

  6. Interesting train of thought. They are about to embark on the great destruction of the culture of the founders.

    We as Southerners are at a crucial moment. The flag of the founders(USA) is under assault. Do we join the assault on the culture that has oppressed us or do we pick up their banner and declare it our own?

    I am of the opinion that there will be a move by extremist Democrats and apologetic Republicans to change Old Glory. Could Old Glory be once again a unifying image of White culture in America?

    1. I would say we shouldn’t try to resurrect any of the old United States flags for two main reasons. The first is because the message would be muddled (people may think we’re just trying to turn back the clock back to before the present craziness happened and/or pre 2008). The second is because the Union hasn’t truly represented us since before 1861, so why would we wave any of the flags of it? Of course, at one point it *did* represent all of us and I can see why a person may want to resuscitate one of the older flags, but again, that’s not who we are anymore.

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