Culture is not an abstraction, it is a living, breathing entity comprised of a people. If a people are virtuous, pious, and industrious, the culture will be a reflection of its people. Conversely, if a people deteriorate into depravity, apathy, and slovenliness, it will be mirrored in the culture. Culture, like a people, has a life cycle – from birth and its ascension to its decline. Cultural rebirth is possible, but it requires a Herculean effort to stave off decline, particularly when internal and external pressures are advocating for its collapse, or when triggering the renascence of a culture long deceased.
To be clear, Southern culture will not survive as long as it is tied to the American Empire – both politically and socially. At present, Southern culture is a sub-category of the prevailing American “multiculturalism.” However, it is reviled culture (and people) within the United States, as both Southern culture and the traditional Southern people are diametrically opposed to modern Americanism. For Southern Nationalists, one of the primary concerns regarding Southern culture is that it will be absorbed and consumed by Americanism should the Southern States remain in a political union with the United States government. American culture is already exported throughout the globe, and its primary aim is to destroy all indigenous peoples and cultures within its path.
Domestically, the American Empire requires all cultures within its realm to be devoured by modern Americanism. In turn, this will produce a more docile, predictable, and, more importantly, controllable population. This aggressive cultural digestion applies even to Protestant-heavy Heritage America, traditional Catholics, and all the way down to recent Muslim immigrants. In the end, all groups inside the sphere of American influence will become “good little Americans.” However, what is Americanism, or modern American culture?
The current American culture is not John Wayne and apple pie. It is certainly not gun-toting, country music blaring, Bible thumping reactionaries in pick-up trucks (those are elements of Southern culture, and typically exaggerated and extracted to rural, “country” areas of the United States). Old American culture had many positive things, but it now acts as an internal foil to contemporary Americanism. American culture is also not pro-family or pro-Christian, it is even vehemently opposed to good health, financial stability, literacy, and common sense. Americanism is a lewdness unfathomable to the Western world a century ago, a promotion of stupidity and imprudence warned about in Aesop’s Fables, and holds a deep loathing for Christianity, masculinity, aesthetics, and its foundational history and people.
In short, Americanism can best be described as a 24/7 commercial starring crossdresser RuPaul as he twerks and pitches the benefits of a predatory reverse home mortgage to obese diabetics and simpletons. It is masquerading flashy bright colors and hypnotic jingles for mental peasants that have had their natural uncanny valley instincts programmed out of them through a subscription streaming service and public education. It wants its victims greatly in debt, medicated, mentally ill, stupid, sterile, and homogenized into a cocoa-colored McDonald’s Happy Meal.
Below are objective and measurable characteristics of Americanism. Identity Dixie did not make these up. A cultural resurgence is not possible when you’ve reached this point of no return. American culture cannot be saved, much less reformed to 1950s Americana. Whereas there is still a glimmer of hope that Southern culture can be rescued through political balkanization and Southern sovereignty, Americanism is so atrocious and hated (internationally and domestically via the Dissident Right) that it is unsustainable in the short to intermediate term – a culture that promotes child mutilation (“gender affirming care”) over having actual children has a short shelf-life, thank God.
Per Axios reporting in February of last year, and based on a Gallup survey from 2021, the percentage of U.S. adults who identify as a homosexual or transexual has doubled over the past decade, from 3.5% in 2012 to 7% in 2021. Gen Z adults, who identify as such, increased from 10.5% in 2017 to 21% in 2021. Millennials, from ages 26 to 41, identifying as sexual reprobates also increased from 6% in 2012 to 10.5% in 2021. Note: this is based off data from a couple of years ago, and we’re now in 2023. The likelihood that these concerning numbers will increase is certainly inevitable. A growing population of mentally ill perverts and homosexuals is not viable, and we know how it spreads.
A Pew Research Center survey from 2021 observed that an increasing number of American adults, who are not already parents, are unlikely to ever have children, and their reasoning ranges from simply not wanting to have children to laughable concerns regarding “climate change.” Some 44% of non-parents, from ages 18 to 49, indicated that it is unlikely or a certainty that they will never have children, an increase of 7% from the 37% who specified the same in a 2018 survey. In a 2022 study of 1,500 adults in Michigan, it was determined that 22% of them do not want to have children and, therefore, have opted to be “childfree.” That same study estimates that childfree Americans are unfortunately quite common, comprising over one-fifth of the population (extrapolating the data throughout the domestic American Empire). Additionally, that 2022 analysis discovered that the “age-to-decision” (not having children) for most of these anti-natalist adults was “early in life.” Wonder why? That’s a rhetorical question.
Americans are reading fewer books than at any point since 1990. Also according to Gallup, American adults read an average of 12.6 books in 2021. That’s roughly three fewer books than what the same survey reported in 2016, and the smallest number Gallup has measured in more than three decades. The number of Americans reading more than 10 books per year dropped 8% between 2016 and 2021. Based on a 2021 Pew Research Center survey, approximately a quarter of American adults (23%) indicated that they did not read a book, in whole or in part, in the previous year – in print, electronic, or even audio format. Furthermore, according to the U.S. Department of Education, over half of Americans (54%) aged between 16 to 74 years old – or about 130 million people – read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. In case you need to be reminded, a sixth grader is usually 11 years old.
Per a recent OnePoll survey of 2,000 American adults over the age of 30, six in ten (59%) Americans credited a celebrity with helping them through a challenging part of their lives. Those celebrities included: Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Bear Grylls, Rebel Wilson, and Tyler Perry. They chose a celebrity over Christ, and this is not to be unexpected considering the status of Christianity within Americanism. In the early 1990s, about 90% of the people in the American Empire identified as Christian. In 2020, Christians accounted for about 64% of the United States population, including children. That’s a fairly significant decline and within the lifetime of all of the Identity Dixie writers. Additionally, those who are not affiliated with a religion has grown from 16% in 2007 to a staggering 30% in 2020. Expect that number to rapidly increase year-over-year.
Roughly two out of three U.S. adults are overweight or obese (69%) and one out of three are obese (36%) per the Harvard School of Public Health. Although, obesity rates are higher in black, Hispanic, and Mexican-American adults than in White adults. If Americanism trends continue, by 2030, estimates predict that roughly half of all men and women will be obese. That obesity trend should also not be surprising, since the CDC recorded that 37% of American adults consumed fast food on a given day (that’s from 2016 data, too). Moreover, 83% of American families eat at fast food restaurants at least once a week, which would help explain why approximately 20% of American children and adolescents are obese.
Not only does American culture create overweight, illiterate nincompoops, but they’re also divorced from their own family history. Ancestry.com and OnePoll discovered through their survey research that 34% of Americans cannot trace their family tree past their grandparents, and a third of them couldn’t even name all four of their grandparents. A fifth of survey participants (21%) were unable to name just one of their great-grandparents. So, when a crusty Twitter leftist attempts to describe their great-grandfather (who landed at Anzio, for example) as an “antifascist,” please realize that they very likely don’t even know his name or what city he was born in.
The old American culture encouraged thrifty behavior and protecting one’s savings – usually to ensure that families created generational wealth. That is no longer the case with Americanism, and this is for good reason: the American Empire wants its subjects in debt and poor. This is facilitated within the modern culture and under the guise of “consumerism.” As of last September, American consumer debt was at $16.5 trillion, with the average American consumer debt at $96,371. The overall debt figure includes credit card balances, student loans, mortgages, etc. Credit card debt increased by almost $40 billion during the third quarter of 2022, a record for the third quarter of any year, according to WalletHub. This was the largest year-over-year increase in more than 20 years. Again, not sustainable, and certainly not beneficial to the American people.
There are an almost endless number of other issues that can be explored regarding the depravity of Americanism. However, the critical component is the Southern people, and Dixian culture, chained to the Leviathan on the Potomac. Its appetite is insatiable; it will, given another generation of unrelenting progress, destroy our culture until nothing is left, except Americanism. Peaceful, political secession is the only recourse to save our Southern children from being groomed, to keep our churches faithful to the Bible, to continuing hearing Southern accents, to restore financial sanity, and to carry on with civilization.
Push for secession in 2023. For if we fail, our posterity will not identify as Southerners – instead, they’ll be something else entirely. They’ll be Americans.
Sadly, debt probably won’t matter much after paper currency disappears and all savings and purchases will be confiscated, regulated, or frozen according to the social credit/demerit standing of the ‘human resource’ with the global financial system. Gold, silver, food and commodities may still have exchange value with some, but it will all have to be done on the ‘down low’ since it will likely be illegal.
Re continuation of Southern Accents:
What we really need is to standardize our own language. It’s there if we can pick it up, dust it off, replace some broken parts and polish it up. Like the “Society of Real Afrikaaners” did for the Afrikaans language, so we must do with the Dixian language. Or we can just kiss it goodbye forever and forfeit another chunk of our national soul.