In this article, I’m going to elaborate more on a topic from my last piece, The Never Ending Story: Optics. I discussed dressing well to distinguish yourself as a Southern Nationalist. However, dressing well does more then just make yourself look better. It raises the standard in whatever establishment you’re frequenting. If we’re going to win this culture war, we are going to have to approach things from every angle.
One of the many approaches I use is dressing well in public. The thought process behind this is simple, I’m presenting myself to look respectable, while simultaneously making others look worse (through their own choice of apparel). There was a time in this country when men would wear a three piece suit just to run errands. We need to take back these standards of public decency. It’s incredibly disappointing to see people walking around in public in their pajamas, or even worse – in sweatpants and a hoodie. These people certainly have no pride in themselves, much less their family name or community.
Ultimately, nobody says anything to them. We need to police sub-standard behavior, attitudes, and cultural standards. We must raise the bar for our people and shore up our deflating cultural norms. I’d imagine the majority of our readers are middle to upper middle-class citizens. None of us hang out on yachts with millionaires or attend these elite social events. Why is that? Simple. We don’t fit in, we’re not one of them and we’re not welcome, so we stay away.
I believe this same concept will work with our lower class (or those with no class). Historically, class enforcement of cultural standards works. The options are exclusion or policing etiquette in the commons. We don’t want people in our community cussing in front of children, blasting vulgarity from their vehicles or dressing like slobs. Again, the answer is twofold – ensure they are excluded, through legal means – like a dress code and other requirements, or correct their dysfunctional affronts.
Whoever falls in this category will not want to go to places where they don’t feel welcome. To use two retail giants as an example, look at the difference between shopping at Walmart and Target. While walking in the parking lot of Walmart you’re almost guaranteed to be serenaded by some filthy music. Before entering the door, you’ll probably encounter some hostile trash arguing over shoes or something equally as ridiculous. Once you do find your way into the store, you’ll see people sagging their pants, people in their pajamas, and sometimes you’ll even see folks almost wearing nothing (visit peopleofwalmart.com if you don’t believe me). The atmosphere is repulsive and the people are rude and uncouth. Target, on the other hand, isn’t nearly as bad. Customers are usually fully clothed, they have some degree of respect and are generally aware of other shoppers. The result is a more civilized experience. Now, I’m not writing this to sway people to shop at Target.
We should all shop local and support other Southern businesses as much as possible, but sometimes it’s inevitable that you’ll find yourself in one of these places. In the event you do, conduct yourself with dignity, courtesy and be reasonable. However, the main point of this post is to discourage intolerable behavior. Oftentimes, people ignore the unruly out of fear or “trying to mind their own business.” If you don’t want a face-to-face altercation with them, there are other ways. For instance, if someone is discarding clothes on the ground, instead of putting them back on the rack, report them to management. If the situation is serious enough, like shoplifting, licking ice cream or berating an elderly couple, then involve the police. The ultimate goal in doing this is to send the message that bad behavior will not be tolerated.
Annoy management to the point that they have to do something about it. Also, don’t be afraid to speak your mind. If you’re entering a building and you hear someone repeatedly using foul language and carrying on, then tell them that you don’t appreciate the way they’re talking in public, especially if you have women and children accompanying you. Most people are afraid to speak up because they’re afraid of it turning into an altercation – no one wants (or should want) to get into a fistfight. This piece isn’t designed to encourage you to coldcock someone for spitting on the sidewalk. However, you’d be surprised how shocked and silent the perpetrators get when someone gently, but firmly, stands up to their bad behavior.
Identity Dixie’s motto is “Retake Everything.” I take this literally, not only do I want to retake Dixie, but I want to take back our morals, our beliefs, our heritage, and our public decency. I want the uncivilized to feel so unwelcome and out of place that they either conform or get out. This country was built for our people and it’s time we start acting like it.
It’s time to Retake Everything.
-By Dixie Anon
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.
It’s often not even necessary to say anything disapprovingly to the culprits or purveyors of the misdeeds you mention; often just a good stern disapproving look will do the trick, depending on who the culprits are, and the confidence and authority you exude. Lots of people who conduct themselves like human trash in public for whatever reason still instinctively understand when they’ve met up with a serious man their better, unwilling to let their anti-social behaviors and manners slide without showing strong disapproval, and perhaps taking it further if needs be. The “angels of their better natures” are usually in there somewhere; no guarantees of course you’ll be able to bring them out with a disapproving look, but it works more often than lots of people think. I know from first hand experience.
P.S.: I sometimes wonder to myself when exactly it became “respectable” or even desirable for the author of a little write-up like this one to refer to it as a “piece,” as though it were some sort of (written) work of art or something. Not that your article is bad or poorly written or anything, but it’s not exactly a work of beauty either, if you know what I mean.
Leave all that high-fallutin’ Yankee lingo for those who mingle in the elitist circles you mention in the write-up. Generally speaking their articles are poorly written and/or reasoned pieces of trash that may be called a “work of art” in the same sense that the headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center is a work of art and beauty, and appealing to the senses.
I note that the better writers in our little corner of the blogosphere almost never refer to their articles as “pieces”; they will refer to them as articles, or as essays, or as posts and write-ups as appropriate, but never as “pieces.”
First, excellent article. Second, the myth of the suit is just that, a myth. Hollywood portrayed, in the 30’s-50’s the average person wearing suits all the time. So having noticed this I asked my mom, who was born in 1932 into a college educated middle class family, if that was the case. She said no, especially in the South. Also on the subject of drinking in the movies where everyone seems to be offered a drink, she said absolutely not, that was total social taboo.
As far as our dress in public, she said bankers and such wore the suits and everyone else wore nice slacks and shirts.
My father was from the poor farmer working class. He wore potato sacks with holes cut out for shirts and jeans that were cuffed to the knee. His father wore overalls with either a white t-shirt or long sleeve garment underneath.
Yes, modern society needs to dress better than we do now
and modesty in language with concern to the presentation of one’s self should be paramount.
Public standards would be great if we could figure out how to enforce it again.
Ya I’m sure most Southerners who didn’t have white collar type jobs didn’t wear suits all of the time (especially in the summer). But I’m sure they probably dressed in a decent suit when they went out to eat, on a date, or went to church.
The T-shirt is the scourge of modern society. While a nice clean non discript pull over type shirt whether short or long sleeve is not offensive, it’s what we print on it that offends. For an example, while going to a teacher’s meeting when my kids were in public school, a parent had on a Confederate CBF t-shirt. Fine I guess, but not a choice I would make, but the real problem was what was written on the shirt. “If you don’t like my rebel flag you can kiss my white ass”. More examples are abound out there as we all know.
There was a photo of a Southern Nationalist holding a SN flag, he was dressed very smartly. He wore an English flat cap, long sleeve Mandarin collar shirt, Tweed vest, cotton slacks and nice shoes. A very country Irish or English look. I wish we as Southerner Nationalists could set ourselves apart with such attire.
This “Dressing Like a White Nationalist” meme is getting old. There was a month there on TRS where Jayoh de la Whateverthefed made the rounds on every show talking about how you shouldn’t leave the house without a sport coat and pulling chairs out for womyn and blah blah blah blah.
Look. Im white trash. My family is, I’ve always been, and will no matter what I wear, be considered white trash by anybody who matters.
I’m an accountant. Have worked for one of the largest firms in the world. I’m still, just white trash. Nobody ever thought more of me because I dressed well. I didnt fit in that world.
I work in a blue collar business now, for blue collar men. I wore a suit to my interviews. They wore overalls. They still, only wear overalls. And I’m still, just white trash.
Now, instead of fagging my wardrobe to people, I just wear good quality workboots, good jeans and a nice polo shirt, tucked it.
I am dressed above everyone in the office still. And I am still, just white trash.
There is a thing white men should care more about than anything, and thats not being pretentious, and knowing your place.
Maybe our humble author is descended from gentry. I’m not.
I’m the first to get a college degree in generations since my family came across the pond in the second potatoecaust.
Our natural hierarchy needs to be reinforced, not a dresscode. Where are the descendents of the Southern plantation owners, whose greed and political largess got us into a war we couldn’t win? Let them wear the three piece suit, step to the fore, and lead from the front for a change.
My family members died for your bullshit obsolete slave based economic model, and muh states rights. Keep your dress code, and lead!
My family is still here. We will still die for this thing. Our race is dying and you want me to wear a tie while it happens?
@IronicSockAccount
White Trash? There are no “trash people”. Don’t relish in negative stereo types. Blue collar is fine, matter of fact, blue collar is out performing many college degrees. Your attire sounds good.
As far as treatment of Women in public. Yes, you should always give them extra attention. Hold open the door, give them the grocery cart that you just pulled out, give them your seat and you stand, allow them to go first in line and the list goes on. Yes many women today don’t deserve it. The problem is, you don’t know who. Yes I’ve been done wrong by women but it doesn’t change how we should act in public.
I have a saying I try to live by: Treat the Haute with respect, and that is their reward. Treat those that think they are less than you with that same respect, and they in turn will give you that same reward.