Posted on 01/09/2009 7:34:08 AM PST by BnBlFlag
Ping
I have studied enough history to be a little curious where this might lead. I’m not sure who participated in this first conference, or how prominent they might be, but there is a real potential for the mainstream to become more interested in regional issues within several parts of the country.
“Well, one can always hope. “
That they have a good PR team.
And you know why.
BUMP!!!!
>>>I believe that the Southern people are a distinct people.
Darn multiculturalists. 8^)
I see that some border states have joined the confederacy. The outline map at their website also includes West Virginia and what looks like parts of southern New Mexico and Arizona, although I don’t see that they had any delegates in attendance. Is there a flag?
How do you operate this and put forward the “Southern agrarian” view without looking like neo-confederate neo-KKK racists? So long as Jefferson Davis, Maddox and Wallace arent in your pantheon of heros, you have a start.
Perhaps including a call for true equality of opportunity with no preferences, a la Ward Connerly, would help remove that bad odor.
They really need to do a better job getting the word out.
No kidding, that was less than 30 miles from my house. I have never heard of this before. Interesting.
If you’ll notice in the sixth paragraph from the botton, it states that there are no restrictios as to race, sex, etc.
And I don’t recall Wallace or Mattox being mentioned although Jeff Davis was quoted. So what. Our State of Texas even has a Jeff Davis County and a number of schools named Jefferson Davis, not to mention the Davis Mountains.
Of course West Virginia is included, because it really is a part of Virginia. Check the Constitution: no state may be subdivided without its consent.
West Virginia was formed from Virginia territory during the War, while at the same time the North was claiming that Virginia had not really legally seceded.
They never really figured out whether the Southern States had seceded or not, and have followed a contradictory policy even since.
MO and MD were invited but not OK? Weird.
It states in the first part of the article that Delegates from both Missouri and Maryland attended the Congress.
Well it makes the rest of the country look at it a little differently. Especially given their belief that "the Southern people are a distinct people."
What exactly does this mean? What counts as a "Southern" person? My dad's parents were born in Pittsburgh, but have lived in Virginia and South Carolina for most of their lives and have kids living in the North and kids living in the South. My other grandfather was born and raised in South Carolina, but has lived in New York most of his life. None of them feel very "distinct" culturally, I don't think.
“It states in the first part of the article that Delegates from both Missouri and Maryland attended the Congress.:
West Virginia remained loyal to the country, while the rest of Virginia didn’t. I don’t think they needed the consent of the rebels to split off. Even though the Union never recognized that rebellion as legitimate, it obviously was in fact taking place, so it wouldn’t be possible to keep acting (and insisting on legal formalities) as though it weren’t.
“But was Oklahoma excluded? OK has a much better claim of being Southern than do MO or MD”.
I agree but I can’t answer the question. I don’t know.
“None of (my family) feel very ‘distinct’ culturally.”
Well, different strokes for different folks!
Maybe we could petition them for membership?
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