Birth of a Moral Nation-State

Happy Easter! Jesus Christ suffered, died, and resurrected for your Salvation. Be joyful that you enjoy eternal life through Him.

There is a seismic shift that can be felt throughout both the South and the North within these United States. It is very clear that distinctions are being drawn on virtue, morality, and Western order. From the punishment of Disney by Florida’s governor over its attempt to interfere in political decisions to the expansion of “gender affirming care” for toddlers in New York, these United States are rapidly disintegrating into two camps. The South is embracing its Christian roots. The North is embracing its militant egalitarian ideological origins. The two will not find common ground. They are diametrically opposed to one another, and that is beautiful. We are witnessing the birth of a distinct moral Nation-State: Dixie.

When two of three Tennessee legislators were expelled on Thursday, 6 April 2023, for using disruptive practices that broke decorum rules, it was not merely a political show of force by Tennessee Republicans. It was an affirmation of long-standing Western discipline. Acting like a petulant child is bad enough. Ignoring the psychosis of a transgender terrorist who murdered Christian children in an attempt to call for gun control was unforgiveable. Tennessee put its foot down. God Bless them! Other Southern states should take similar measures if they have the legal means to do so. It is not simply that we should seek the punishment of Marxist and irrational rabble rousers. Rather, we should seek means to set clear distinctions between the South and the rest of “those” United States.

First, it is important to understand what a “Nation-State” is; then understand why you should have hope. There is much confusion regarding the term “nation” and “state,” largely because the United States applies different uses to their actual definitions. The term “nation” means a unique people. The term “state” means a defined geography with independent governance. In the U.S., nation is often confused with these United States – a country – while state is a section of these United States that enjoys semi-autonomy (e.g., Florida, New York, Texas, etc.). The Treaty of Westphalia determined the definition of “nation-state” in 1648, at the conclusion of both the Dutch Revolution (“Eighty Years War”) and the Thirty Years War. In essence, it became the nearly permanent alignment of European territorial boundaries (countries) that have changed somewhat since then, but very little and often temporarily. Those geographies were largely drafted along national lines – i.e., people who shared cultural, historical, and linguistic heritages. The emergence of the “Nation-State” led to one of the most powerful, transformative historical concepts in world history. All countries since that Treaty have largely applied its definition to create distinct and free countries, especially in the post-colonial era of the 1940s through the 1970s.

By definition, the United States is not a Nation-State. It is a collection of states that have gradually ceded their authority to federal actors. In this regard, the United States is the European Union in two-hundred years. Furthermore, each state has distinct cultures that form national identities. The South, as a region, enjoys a number of countries – i.e., American states – that share cultural, historical, linguistic, and even genetic similarities. New England is yet another distinct region. The Midwest is less severely distinct, largely because there was a collective commitment by Nordic and German settlers to embrace an “American” identity that avoids regionalism. This is no doubt a function of the times and philosophies that drove them to the U.S. in the mid-19th Century. Still, the Midwest knows it is neither Yankee New Englanders nor Southern Dixians. They have their own national identity, albeit less wedded to sectionalism.

This is important because it all circles back to the possibility of a Southern Nation-State emerging as a Christian moral epicenter. The South will not need to physically fight its way out of the Union in the 21st Century. It will be kicked out of the Union for its Christian intransigence. With every outrageous Northern state’s legal, political, or social policies, Southerners must remain committed to countering these immoral steps with the most hardline-Christian reaction. In so doing, the South does two things. First, it enrages an emotionally unhinged rest of those United States in such a way that Dixie becomes wholly unacceptable to the Left. Many leftists will self-exile, as we have seen with the plethora of LGBT students and their parents who recently fled Florida. The rest will simply pass ever increasing counter-laws to create a sharper distinction between them and us.

When the South outlaws transgender surgery for children, the Yankees will pay for it… when the South punishes black criminality with lethal force, the Yankees will effectively handcuff their own law enforcement… when the South restricts infanticide, the Yankee will fund them and expand the right to include children several days after they are born… when the South passes measures to fund Christian schools through choice, the Yankees will effectively make them illegal, pulling their certifications (as New York did to many Catholic schools) … These divisions will exacerbate a growing divide. We should keep pushing.

Second, the South implores God through its increasingly stronger moral stance. There are some who say that God does not interfere in the political machinations of mankind. Those people have never read a Bible. The Lord blesses Nation-States who hear His Word and implement legal systems to adhere to it. These United States have lost God’s favor, as evidenced by its lost wars. The South should depart from it, as warned in the Book of Revelation (a topic I have covered before).

What we are now witnessing is a total moral secession in real time. There is a South that is beautiful, Godly, and seeks to preserve Western traditions and culture. That is a manifestation of its people. By definition, that is “nation” personified in policy. We are a Christian nation. The contrast is a North that becomes exceedingly more degenerate. It rejects God. It rejects Christianity. It rejects Western traditions and culture. That, too, is a manifestation of its people. By definition, that is “nation” personified in policy. They are an antichristian people – not all of them, but enough that they enjoy political power, thus making them the majority within their lands. They are “antichrists” as explained in the first epistle of John. They are not a Christian nation.

Now comes the “state.” We have the geographical confines to determine what is “the South.” It is a land below the Mason-Dixon. It is a collection of states that once fought an expansive federal government that invaded them in the mid-19th century. It is well defined. That which is needed now is to create a bloc of states that becomes so abhorrent to the antichrists of the North that they extricate us from their union in an attempt to create the Bolshevik dystopia they seek. Let them kick us out. We can and should depart peacefully.

With every pro-Christian, moral counter-policy that is raised in Dixie, a new Nation-State emerges. You are witnessing it in real time, even if it is hard to see at times. The crystallization of an independent Christian country is in its infancy, but it is there. You are watching the birth of a moral Nation-State in real time. Celebrate its birth.