Replies

Both Dixie Chick and Bill Bear (Deo Vindice) are participants in overtly racist forums, in addition to Free Republic. There, the sneakiness they engage in here is absent. The support for segregation and opposition to racists being tried for their crimes alluded to here is explicit there. In fact, participants in those forums urge contributions to a defense fund set up for Edgar Killen.

Talk of "protecting our Southern heritage" is just a smoke screen for racism. Most "heritage" groups, including the League of the South and the Conservative Citizens Council, are both segregationist and secessionist. The Sons of Confederate Veterans has been influenced greatly by those groups and is pretty close to being white supremacist, too. So, I urge people not to be deceived by the kind of implied racism one sees on threads like this one. You are hearing from people who want to deprive their fellow citizens of their rights, but are being less strident at FR than they are elsewhere.