Posted on 04/14/2016 9:36:26 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
I am a Southerner...
I won't apologize I won't be reconstructed. I will not surrender My identity, my heritage. I believe in the Constitution, In States' Rights, That the government should be the Servant, not the Master of the people. I believe in the right to bear arms, The right to be left alone. I am a Southerner... The spirit of my Confederate ancestors Boils in my blood. They fought Not for what they thought was right, But for what was right. Not for slavery, But to resist tyranny, Machiavellian laws, Oppressive taxation, invasion of his land, For the right to be left alone. I am a Southerner... A rebel, Seldom politically correct, At times belligerent. I don't like Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Or modern neocon politicians like them. I like hunting and fishing, The Bonnie Blue and "Dixie" I still believe in chivalry and civility. I am a face in the Southern collage of Gentlemen and scholars, belles and writers, Soldiers and sharecroppers, Cajuns and Creoles, Celts and Germans, freedmen and slaves. We are all the South. The South...My home, my beautiful home. My culture, my destiny, my heart. I am a Southerner...
Deo Vindice
What “tyranny”?
In Dixie Land I’ll take my stand, to live and die in Dixie.
bump for Dixie
Dag nabbit! Them thar Yankees are gonna pay! Pay! And I swear that on my sweet little cousin and all my kinfolk ya hear!
Late Unpleasantness bump
I thought you liked me :(
From New Yawk and love the south, the idea of the south, the bastion of fierce freedom.
Was Sad to see the flags come down.
Though there would be a bigger backlash.
Not the right fight at the right time?
THOUGHT
Did anyone read the article about the contractor who’s supposed to remove the monuments in New Orleans? His Lamborghini burned
Sadly most that cared have passed.We are fighting a rear guard action and we know what the end result of that is.
Pity. Bless his heart.
I understand this is not the Politically Correct explanation....but it is a fact.
gee, that’s too @#$@#$@$#ing bad.
I love my city, NYC. Hate my state.
Really, I love Staten Island and love the attractions of NYC but hate the politics.
Nephew moved to NC and he has told me he plans not to vote.
I love him very much so like I’ve said before, plese don’t bash him, but he thinks the dems’ spending habits are insane, but cant vote for a groups against gay marriage!!!
I could have put him against a wall 10 years ago, but he’s 27 now.
I told him “don’t ruin that state and make it like the one you left!!” he left NJ
One of the biggest reasons for the death of the Whigs and birth of the Republican party was abolition of slavery.
England had military observers/advisors along with some southern units. England also had a strong abolitionist movement. And they were still f2fsore with their own rebels 45 years later.
Some historians believe Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation, after the costly victory at Antietam, kept them out of the war.
Slavery wasn’t a manufactured issue, even if Lincoln said if he could preserve the union without freeing a single slave, he would.
Just giving the damyankee perspective. If there is a CWII, I expect it will be along class lines, and again, states’ rights. The federal government metastasized after that mess.
Slavery was what murdered the South.
I’m a Southerner, but I’m glad slavery in the South is over. It was wrong.
It’s your history and your heritage and damn anybody that tries to erase it.
“ROLL TIDE”
Truer words were never spoken:) ROLL TIDE!!
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