[CHARLITE]

Also suggest this one by James Atticus Bowden. He discusses succession, but in a humorous tone. It is a lively thread!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1349913/posts?page=43

[AZ_Cowboy]

A good read. The South and West will continue to strengthen politically, too, because there is a mass-exodus of people from the North that are of like mind. I was one of these people.

[nothingnew]

Good one Char.

FMCDH(BITS)

[layman]

Yankees and liberals just don’t get it

Not so ... the vast majority of Yankees do get it, Bubba. You've got more friends than you know.

[AntiBurr]

Excellent post, Thank You.
Most people can't relate to the Battle Flag as the Cross of St. Andrew and do not know that it is also on the flag of Scotland. Scotland, in turn provided many of the orginal settlers of the mountain regions of the South. (And other areas as well, Fayetteville NC was originally Campbellton). Consider the never ending (still) hostility toward England by the Scots and you will begin to understand the Southerner. If one does not believe that the Scots still have an impact in the Blue Ridge area, just listen to the music and hear the echo of the pipes in it.
"Crime makes Poverty" I hadn't thought of that, but it is true, and who would know better than those from a state originally settled by "criminals" released from debtors prison and transported by Oglethorpe to found the State of Georgia.
Finally, the last line of the Declaration is meaninless to a liberal.

[Uri’el-2012]

I’m a reconstructed Southern Democrat who changed my registration to Republican twenty years ago.

 

In His Forever Grip

chuck

[Nuc1]

Well done lass.

[LadyPilgrim]

)))PING(((

[Dan from Michigan]

I agree with most of it, but a lot of us Yankees do get it - particulary away from the big cities.

As one of the (albeit new) Skynyrd songs say - "We ain't much different at all."

[DuncanWaring]

Born Fighting : How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb.

[Budge]

Fun read ping.

[DixieOklahoma]

"300,000 yankees learned that"

I hates the Yankee nation and everything they do, I hates the Declaration of Independence, too! I hates the "Glorious Union" -- 'tis dripping with our blood, And I hates their striped banner, and I fit it all I could.

I followed old Marse Robert for four years, near about, Got wounded in three places, and starved at Point Lookout. I cotched the "roomatism" a'campin' in the snow, But I killed a chance o' Yankees, and I'd like to kill some mo'!

Three hundred thousand Yankees is stiff in Southern dust! We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us. They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot, But I wish we'd got three million instead of what we got.

I can't take up my musket and fight 'em now no more, But I ain't a'gonna love 'em, now that's for sartain sure! I do not want no pardon for what I was and am, And I won't be reconstructed, and I do not care a damn!

ahh you gotta love the southern songs of the civil war.

full song at http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Square/3208/rebel.htm

[l8pilot]

Slavery, segregation and racism are wrong. They are sins against God

I don't know what Bible he is reading, but in looking in the book of Philemnon, it looks like the Apostle Paul returned a "fugative slave", and told the owner that because he was now a Christian, he would be of much more use.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Food for thought.

[Smokin' Joe]

YES!

[canalabamian]

We are conservatives based on convictions. We are not loyal to any Party, as much as to our Principles.

Excellent point.

[Tribune7]

good answer. bump

[185JHP]

Honest law-abiding people shouldn't have to support bums and deviates. Hushpuppies should have onion in them.

[cyborg]

Everyone is a 'yankee' to the foreigner.

[saleman]

Bttt