Some call it “The Last Southern State” or “The Most Southern of States,” but the simple fact remains this state may no longer boast of such a title in the near future. Mississippi remains the final state in the Union to feature Confederate imagery, namely the Southern Cross, in its state flag. The last holdout against total Reconstruction, Mississippi receives arguably more derision than any other Southern state from hostile communists and the general populace which follows them. Unfortunately, the state now faces another challenge to its flag. This essay will examine a brief history of Mississippi’s resistance to leftwing tyranny and detail the current attempts at Reconstruction it faces.
Dating to the initial formation of the Confederacy, Mississippi followed South Carolina’s example in 1860 and became the second Southern state to do so. Contributing roughly 22.6% of its Caucasian population to the Confederate Army, the state fought valiantly and lost many. In addition to its human contribution, Mississippi, alongside South Carolina, stood to lose the most economically from a Union victory.
Following the Confederacy’s tragic defeat, the Magnolia State’s residents steeled themselves in contempt for their proto-communist overlords. Reconstruction maliciously inverted the permeable social caste system Deep Southerners in Mississippi spent many generations developing and growing accustomed to. Additional military occupation and government induced harassment via black militias brought about an air of hopelessness among whites, forcing the then conservative Democratic Party to withhold fielding a candidate in the gubernatorial election of 1873. Reforming in 1875 after seven consecutive years of Radical rule, the Democrats successfully defeated the Radicals in that year’s election. The act was nothing short of a revolution known as the Mississippi Plan, pitting militant whites, many of them members of the newly established Red Shirts, against equally militant Negroes and scalawags. This act would later inspire South Carolina in its own rightwing counter-revolution the following year. The Jim Crow Era finally manifested in Mississippi and was solidified with the ratification of a new constitution in 1890.
The Jim Crow Era produced a stringent social hierarchy, which Mississippi played no small part in contributing to. Considered the next phase of the Mississippi Plan, the state ratified its new constitution and a few Southern states followed suit. After a long history of producing superlative statesmen, the golden age of the Jim Crow Era came to a halt when faced with belligerent military force once again in the Civil Rights Era, in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. Being the last state to integrate its schools, Mississippi garnered a reputation for resistance to federal will. One of the final remaining products of the state’s infamous Jim Crow characteristics remains the official state flag of 1894.
Presently, Mississippi faces grave hardship in the face of the newest wave of Reconstruction. Quietly ignoring the brunt of neo-Reconstruction demands during most of the post-Civil Rights years, the state’s flag is historically the single most controversial object of its existence. Any time in which the Left catalyses another crusade against Confederate imagery, Mississippi generally lacks the will to adhere to the whims of the trend. However, the Left never neglects to attack the state’s flag.
Since 2003, Mississippi remains the final state with blatant Confederate imagery in its official flag. Failing miserably at every attempt, the Left now believes it can succeed. Initially demanding change in 2015 after the Charleston shooting, then Governor Bryant ignored the Left’s calls and declared April Confederate History Month in response. Five years later, Governor Tate Reeves has seen fit to skirt his leadership duties in regards to the flag, and has insisted, amidst recent leftist hysteria after the death of drug addict thug George Floyd, the people of the state should vote. In efforts to circumvent a referendum due to the flag’s supporters holding a decent majority, they now wish to simply change it by resolution and amendment of the state’s constitution. Simply stated, Reeves won largely based on his support of the flag and his obvious, yet downplayed, Southern sympathies and will not win reelection should the Left succeed in changing the flag without having to face his opposition. Currently, a number of cities refuse to publicly fly the flag out of defiance, and the flag’s change remains to be seen.
Admittedly a bit short for this author, the severity of the situation necessitates discussion. All across Dixie, Confederate monuments and similar historic memorials face vandalism and destruction at the behest of feral communists. The only other states to openly defy the federal government on par with Mississippi, being Louisiana and South Carolina, have long since collapsed under communist pressure. South Carolina, under it’s foreign Governor Nikki Haley, cravenly removed the rebel flag from its capitol grounds, a move necessitated on a compromise to begin with. Additionally, Louisiana’s recent gubernatorial election’s most conservative candidate, and current governor, was a Democrat, the Republican candidates being liberal carpetbaggers.
Historically, and to this day, Mississippi continues to remain the final stronghold of the South. When the state finally collapses, the last remnant of Old Dixie dies with it.
“The White people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.” –Strom Thurmond
“Historically, and to this day, Miss’ippi continues to remain the final stronghold of the South. When the state finally collapses, the last remnant of Old Dixie dies with it.”
No, with respect, there are zilllions of remnants of Old Dixie in Dixie, and they are all those atoms which comprise you, me, and tens of millions around us.
Yes, this battle over Mississippi’s flag is a symbol, a gauge, if you will, of the state & condition in which our communal spiritual state is, but, the last remnant?
As to visual symbols :
My state, North Carolina, is still waving the same flag that it waved across every battle in The War between The States, and huge Confederate monuments are still all over the yard of our governor’s mansion, right smack dab in the centre of our capital city, Raleigh.
Yes, we’ve got problems and vexations, without a doubt, and, no, I sure as hell do not want Miss’ippi to fold on this issue, but, there is no aspect of Old Dixie which is even near a last remnant.
Hell, just think how many more White Southerners there are in this world, today, as compared with 1880!
In fact, we are still so formidable that, if we are of a mind, there is little we could not achieve, in the political sense, in this country.
It all comes down to desire.
We are not a last remnant – not even close.
Ivan, it’s true that there are still a lot of remnants of Old Dixie, but everyday we’re loosing more an more of them especially over the last few weeks an I don’t think it’ll stop anytime soon.
I’d say there are still a few million of us out there spread across the rural south an some sympathizers to our cause. I worry that there won’t be enough younger people to keep our culture an way of life alive, and that we will completely die out within the next 30-40 years an with all our history wiped out we may not be remembered.
North Carolina has been more moderately hit over the past couple years, but I’m glad to hear that the people in your great state haven’t given in to the marxist demands. I hope Raleigh continues to keep those monuments up. In my home state of Tennessee we still have a lot of our monuments up in tip top shape an even Confederate holidays, an also a lot of us still fly those stars an bars, loud an proud. On I40 you’ll see a huge rebel flag that’s been flying since at least 2015 that shows those carpetbaggers traveling through that we’re still here.
I to hope Mississippi doesn’t fold on this issue, Virginia has been hit hardest of all on this along with South Carolina an I feel very sorry for our southern brothers an sisters there. Unfortunately even though there are more white southerners now, a lot less of them would actually be considered southern compared to the civil war when nearly all of them were considered southern so I guess it balances out in a way.
We probably COULD achieve something, but the keyword is could an if things dont calm down than we most likely wont have a chance.
Johnny Reb
Being a lifetime resident of Mississippi, this essay hits home. We citizens of the state voted 64% in favor of keeping the flag as it is in 2001. Now the legislature is taking matters into their own hands. It’s been quite a busy few weeks for the powers-that-be. Last week, the state college board (whose commissioner draws a taxpayer-funded salary of $358,313 a year) voted unanimously to remove the Confederate statue from the Ole Miss campus. It’s likely only a matter of days before they vote to remove the statue of General Stephen D Lee from the center of the campus at Mississippi State. General Lee was the school’s first president, but his great sin was that he was a CONFEDERATE general. Had he been a U.S. general in the 1960s, and authorized the bombing of Vietnamese and Cambodians 8900 miles from U.S. shores, there would be no problem. But he was a Southerner defending his country against a vicious Yankee invasion, and that won’t do.
Anthony, Never back down, protect your home an way of life.
Gotta be Johnny Reb
Re: the proto-communist overlords… http://www.usa-the-republic.com/sheldon%20emry/billions%20for%20the%20bankers.html
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THE COST TO YOU?
EVENTUALLY, EVERYTHING!
In 1910 the U.S. Federal debt was only $1 billion, or $12.40 per citizen. State and local debts were practically non-existent.
By 1920, after only 6 years of Federal Reserve shenanigans, the Federal debt had jumped to $24 billion, or $226 per person.
In 1960 the Federal debt reached $284 billion, or $1,575 per citizen and State and local debts were mushrooming.
By 1981 the Federal debt passed $1 trillion and was growing exponentially as the Banker’s tripled the interest rates. State and local debts are now MORE than the Federal, and with business and personal debts totaled over $6 trillion, 3 times the value of all land and buildings in America.
If we signed over to the money-leaders all of America we would still owe them 2 more Americas (plus their usury, of course!)
However, they are too cunning to take title to everything. They will instead leave you with some “illusion of ownership” so you and your children will continue to work and pay the Bankers more of your earnings on ever increasing debts. The “establishment” has captured our people with their ungodly system of usury and debt as certainly as if they had marched in with a uniformed army.
The Georgia flag is an exact copy of the flag of the Confederacy.