I’m in the south now, after escaping mexifornia.
The banning the symbol of the south, on top of the recent SC rulings, could very well be the catalyst that gets the south to rise again.
CWII isn’t far away.
The Marxists will never give up on a situation they think they can parlay into another advantage. They have been doing this stuff for over 100 years now and are quite adept at it.
White Southern political culture has shown remarkable continuity, despite the half-century flight of Southern conservatives from the Democratic to the Republican Party. It is true, as some historians and pundits point out, that the Republican Party’s post-World War II resurgence in the South owed a lot to its appeal to suburbanites and business elites. But that is ancient history. More recently, the country-club Republican supporters of Barry Goldwater and John Connally have been swamped in Southern Republican parties by a wave of working-class white Southerners who are heirs to paranoid and sullen Dixiecrat conservatism, not sunny and optimistic Goldwater-Reagan conservatism. Indeed, on issues from gay marriage to immigration to public investment in infrastructure, the business community and the GOP’s white Southern base are increasingly at odds.For a discussion of the Lind piece on FR, surf over here.All of this leaves little doubt that, in the absence of Southern exceptionalism, the U.S. would be much more similar to other English-speaking democracies, which don’t subject their leaders to religious tests, don’t suffer from high levels of gun violence and don’t rival communist China and despotic Saudi Arabia in the number of executions per capita. Without the gravitational force exerted on the South, American conservatism itself would be radically different—more Bob Dole than Ted Cruz (emphasis added).
The northern progressives who joke about the U.S. jettisoning “Jesusland” and merging with Canada will not get their wish. But there is hope: A combination of demographic change and generational change is weakening the ability of the old-fashioned South to skew American politics and culture in the future. Peripheral Southern states like Florida and Virginia are increasingly competitive, and the Deep South may join them in time. In Texas once-reactionary cities like Houston and Dallas are competing with Austin as tolerant meccas for transplants who prefer the Sun Belt to the Old South. Immigration into the South from other countries and American regions is breaking down local oligarchies and old folkways.
The decline in Southern exceptionalism in time may lead to more of a convergence among the U.S. and other modern democracies (emphasis added). Let us hope so. We have had enough of the wrong kind of American exceptionalism.
The wound was never closed.
What this writer, and others forget or studiously avoid, is the that the battles of the Civil War, were physically fought in the South.
The effects of “war”, in destructive civilian massacres, rapes, and property confiscations, were entirely endured by Southerners.
The Union Yankee’s used indentured servants, savage native tribes, and foreign mercenaries as their warring soldier forces in the Civil War.
They supposedly “won” the horrific war, but have never been able to claim any moral victory.
Because they had no real moral “human equality” goals, just corrupt political power/financial ones.
This may come as a complete shock to everyone under 60 years old, but there exists no race on earth who have not been owners of slaves, or enslaved by others who warred against them, throughout human history.
Southern White USA Christian males did not “invent” slavery.
Yankee White USA Agnostics did not end it.
“What accounts for the recent outpouring of vitriol against the Confederacy, of scorn for the sacrifice of its manhood, for the flag its soldiers carried into battle...”
The predictions of the civil rights revolution, which predictions were its justification, have not come true. The conditions of the descendants of the slaves worsen steadily. The widely accepted explanation (white racism) is absurd. The cognitive dissonance is fierce.
What you observe is the result.
The slaves aren’t free. They now live on the Democrat plantation.
Did anyone else notice when the left/media/democrats, turned against “big” Tobacco?
It was about the time that their dollars had started going to republican politicians.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.