Posted on 01/14/2007 5:48:30 PM PST by conservativeinferno
"David 'Weaseley' Beasley"
LOL, your northern cousins in NC refer to Governor Mike Easley, Democrat, as "Weasley."
The irony is is that most of the blacks I knew when I lived in Columbia didn't care about the flag one way or the other. They might've preferred it out of sight, but they were sick of hearing about it and in general, didn't seem to mind it. After the compromise that put that flag behind that monument, the only people that kept bringing it up over and over were out-of-state politicians, race pimps like Jesse Jackson, and the state NAACP come fund-raising time. The general public, regardless of race or political leaning, mostly considered the matter closed once the flag moved from the top of the Statehouse dome down to the Confederate Soldiers Memorial.
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I'd be happy if they'd just cordon themselves off in Massachusetts.
You come to my town and tell us what flag to fly or not to fly and we'll show your smalltown butt the highway back home.
Dodd has no business whatsoever calling for South Carolina to do anything.
Spit on him and those who support him on this.
Heh, actually, I'm headed to North Carolina. I live in Virginia now but my employer's transferring me to the Durham area in a couple of weeks. Easley sounds a lot like our back-to-back Rat governors up here, Mark Warner and Tim "The Eyebrow" Kaine. Just down-home enough to con people into thinking they aren't tax-and-spend liberals, and then bam, here come the tax hikes. At least South Carolina's got maybe the best governor in the country in Mark Sanford.
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"You're either a part of the United States or you're not. You can't have it both ways."
Nonsense. I'm American and Southern. Proud to be both. The old, "American by birth, Southern by the grace of God" reflects a true sentiment.
And in this day of central government and, what used to be, central media, we have to bow to the almighty intellects of those who would be kings. Screw 'em. If SC wants to secede again I'll move there. No war, just freedom. IF there is any state that even comes close to the ideas that existed prior to 1860 it is SC. And don't give me the slavery crap. That is ancient history. I'll warrant that you can find many black South Carolinians who would also be ready to shed themselves of the Imperial Federal Government.
Why was Senator Dodd politicizing in a church.....I thought the Democrats believed in that sep. of church and state?
You're on!
Well good, there are two of you we can tell off. In Texas we often fly all the flags that have flown over the state. Should we haul them all down? Spain - Mexico - France? How about the Texas Flag, I mean my family fought under it while killing yankees, and it's the same one flown by the Republic.
"As long as you ARE part of the United States, that flag has no place flying over a government building of any kind."
Does your statement include state flags also? After all...we're all Americans. Why should each state have a separate flag?
States still exist today. The Confederacy doesn't.
The problem is, South Carolina's state government is very screwed-up (and I say this as someone who lived there for seven years and absolutely adores the place). Local municipalities couldn't do ANYTHING without massive interference from the legislature until maybe thirty years ago--"home rule," cities and counties actually being able to do things without their state legislative delegations meddling, is a radical and recent concept there. The General Assembly is still pretty bloody "imperial" itself, despite the fact that it's ostensibly GOP-dominated.
Mark Sanford has been slamming heads with the General Assembly nonstop for over four years now trying to get them to control pork, and he hasn't always won. And despite his efforts, taxes there are higher than you'd think. It varies by city/county/school district, but our cars' property taxes were obscene living around the Columbia area, and the state income tax was quite high. The sales tax was low, though.
The people, even a lot of the liberals, really do have an independent and ornery streak in them that's fantastic. South Carolina catches so much crap in the dominant media, painted as some sort of backward, inbred, hick, poverty-stricken place, and it's not. It's a great place to live, provided you're not looking for New York or Los Angeles.
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You come to my town and tell us what flag to fly or not to fly and we'll show your smalltown butt the highway back home
The question is - why does this non-issue mean so much to you? Why is it so important to you, in 2007, to fly a flag that represents you as being a separate, sovereign nation from the United States? Please explain, rationally, not emotionally. Most of the time, here, we're concerned with doing everything we can to save our United States. But this issue seems to come down on the side of f*** the United States.
From what I understand, Mark Sanford is the only hero among governers. He has butted heads with spenders to the tune of billions and has so far won. Am I wrong?
Ain't that why they shot at 'em in the first place?
"You're either a part of the United States or you're not. You can't have it both ways."
Nonsense. I'm American and Southern. Proud to be both. The old, "American by birth, Southern by the grace of God" reflects a true sentiment."
No, it's not nonsense. It's great to be Southern, but being Southern doesn't mean you deny being a part of the United States. That's the issue - the Confederate flag represents a sovereign nation outside the United States. Now are you a part of the United States, or are you still a part of the Confederacy (which ended a LONG time ago??)
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