New York Post writer Mr. Jimmy Breslin (as reported here at the Herald) recently wrote in opposition, in his widely-read column, against the building of the proposed warship, U.S.S. New York, at a shipyard in Mississippi. Leaving aside the question of how, precisely, warships can be built other than in places like Mississippi, i.e. regions of the United States that have not chosen to completely dismantle the industrial sectors of their economy in favor of the service and financial sectors, I would like to direct my remarks to the character of Mr. Breslin's remarks, in particular his apparent belief that Mississippi, and presumably the rest of the Old South, are somehow morally inferior and otherwise not worthy of building a ship bearing the somewhat over-valued name of "New York."

To get straight to the heart of the matter, Mr. Breslin is absolutely correct about one thing: We of the Old South do not much like New York, we don't like its culture, we don't like the way things are done there and we don't particularly enjoy being part of a country lorded over by such commonly obnoxious, shallow, vapid, materialistic and generally unpleasant people as tend to dominate that vulgar, crime-ridden, dirty metropolis. But you know something? Back in 1861, we made a very sincere (and thoroughly Constitutional, which is to say, legal) effort to dissolve the political bands which connect us to those people in New York and other such similar places (much as was declared previously for the whole of the United States in 1776). To our rather unpleasant surprise, the tyrannical Abraham Lincoln and his cossack conscripts (many of whom were unscrupulously drafted immediately after stepping off the boat from Ireland, Germany and southern Europe) made this entirely rational and seemingly desirable solution impossible, through their indiscriminate use of total warfare against the Southern people (thus proving beyond any reasonable evidentiary demands that we and them are most decidedly NOT brethren). The unpleasantness ended in 1865, after 350,000 Union soliders had died, while engaged in the task of killing 250,000 Confederate soldiers as well as 50,000 Southern cilvians (I'm proud to note that no significant number of Union civilians died in that war, despite numerous instances of sufficient vulnerability on their part).

Since the end of The War of Northern Aggression, we Southrons have tried to make the best of a less than optimum situation (as must we all, to one extent or another). We complained and we struggled and occassionally we won a political skirmish. Mostly we lost. We never cared for this, but we struck a bargain in 1865. The basic thrust of that bargain was that as long as the Northerners would allow us to have our way of life and not oppress us too much and not make our second-class citizenship anything more than the merely de facto, as opposed to de jure, that we could accept the victor's peace and get on with our lives.

In recent years, it has become extremely evident, however, that the Northerners will never be satisifed until every last vestige of the American South has been crushed under the iron heels of their neo-Jacobin tyranny. The attitude expressed by Mr. Breslin, one of pure, unadulturated hatred, bigotry and contempt, has become virtually the only attitude we expect to encounter with regard to ourselves and our lives. It has become obvious to me that the 600,000 military deaths, and the 50,000 civilian murders, perpetrated in the name of Yankee domination over the American South, was an insincere waste. The Northerners do hate us, they despise us, they loathe us and they want nothing more than to oppress us, humiliate us and to harm our interests at every turn. They have concluded (quite logically) that they may do these things more effectively if we are a willing participant in their national system (as we have been almost since the day the shooting stopped in 1865), rather than the sovereign nation we were for the four preceding years (and still would be, had our British and French allies not stabbed us in the back, but that is all water under the bridge now).

Being a man of honor and simple, common decency (rare traits in degenerate dystopias like New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles, I will readily grant), it is difficult for me to understand why one would want to extend one's national system over the territory of a people whom one despises and are increasingly despised by. For some peculiar reason, the people who brought us fast food, "rap music," the Vietnam War and Adam Sandler movies (not to mention the 9/11 attacks, which are a direct result of the irrational foreign policy those people have substituted for one actually based on something vaguely akin to the national interest) are intent on keeping us as their imperial subjects forever. Perhaps there is some sort of Freudian psycho-sexual reason for this (like the way their materialistic culture has turned them all into objects of ridicule and scorn for their own children and invariably "ex" wives, hence they enjoy taking their frustrations out on someone whom they respect even less than themselves). Whatever the reason, enough has clearly become enough. It is time to leave these fools behind (and let them fight Al-Qaeda, Iraq, North Korea, and whomever they decide they don't like the looks of next week, alone as well - a neat trick, since most American military officers are fellow Southrons, as are about half the regular troops) and to stake out our own claim to national destiny. To wit, I propose:

A restoration of the Confederate States of America, to include all the old constituent states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Additionally, invitations to join the CSA ought to be extended to the following states: Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North & South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and the rural counties of California (as well as the Canadian jurisdictions of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba and the Yukon). The belief that their respective elites run roughshod over their own interests runs high in all these places and there's no reason to assume they wouldn't be interested in exchanging the USA (or Canada) for a freer and more peaceful existence within a reborn CSA.

Bring Back the Spirit of Jeffersonian Liberty!

Down with the vulgar, ugly, war-mongering North!

Long Live a Free Southland!


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A wolf in sheeps clothing from San Jose. The worst a native of the American South can say about Yankees these days is that they have run up the price of real estate when they retire to the sunbelt states to play golf year round.

There's a practical joke here that YOU just couldn't understand. Oopppps, my Africian Gray just started whistling "Dixie" followed by raucous laughter. Of course Little Okra whistles "Dixie" every morning. Since she is a well-centered bird, the evening will find her whistling "Moonlight in Vermont". As with any culture, if you don't know the people, you don't get the joke. Got it?

I think the whole point of Mr Breslin's remarks have been misrepresented (on these boards??? Whatever next!). The reason he singled out Mississippi is that it is the home state of the disgraced slimeball nazi Trent Lott. That tiny factoid was omitted by the original poster.

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I think the whole point of Mr Breslin's remarks have been misrepresented (on these boards??? Whatever next!). The reason he singled out Mississippi is that it is the home state of the disgraced slimeball nazi Trent Lott. That tiny factoid was omitted by the original poster.
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Well, I'm not agreeing with the original poster on anything but it is clear what he was referencing when he mentioned the perceived moral inferiority of southerners by northerners. As a New Yorker I see plenty of racism right here. One needn't venture south to see it.

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Well, I'm not agreeing with the original poster on anything but it is clear what he was referencing when he mentioned the perceived moral inferiority of southerners by northerners. As a New Yorker I see plenty of racism right here. One needn't venture south to see it.
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I can remember when being a racist ment that you strongly disliked or hated another race. Now it means that you disagree with another race..... but only if you are white in this PC world. So I just blow all that "linquistic engineering" off.

The last vestiges of the 100+ year punishment of the South as a conquered people came when the discriminatory rail tariffs were abandoned by the Staggers Act of 1981. Texans like many others outside of the deep South, fought on both sides of that conflict & many here identify with the West rather than the South.

It will come as no surprise to you that Washington DC is usually blamed for my state's problems. The saying about the District of Columbia here is that Washington is a city of Northern charm & Southern efficiency.......which is not a complement to either.

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I can remember when being a racist ment that you strongly disliked or hated another race. Now it means that you disagree with another race..... but only if you are white in this PC world. So I just blow all that "linquistic engineering" off.
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Or it just means that you share political views with one party....one that believes Affirmative Action is more an abomination than its absence.

At its outset, I believe that affirmative action was well intended but over the years it morphed into the devisive tool that it is today. The affirmative action policy of my alma mater, the University of Texas, was discarded by the Courts here in recent years to the universal screechs of academia & the media. Back to the bad old days & Nazi judges was the mantra of the liberals. In its stead, the Courts ordered that the top 10% of high school graduates from each & every high school in the state were to be automatically admitted to UT if that was their choice & provided for remedial education if needed during the 1st year. But everything is based on merit & merit alone. Minorities were doubtful, but after a couple of years the student population became more diverse than it had ever been before.

I'm 100% with you. Unfortunately, anyone who supports such a change is considered by many to be a racist.

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I think the whole point of Mr Breslin's remarks have been misrepresented (on these boards??? Whatever next!). The reason he singled out Mississippi is that it is the home state of the disgraced slimeball nazi Trent Lott. That tiny factoid was omitted by the original poster.
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No intellectually serious American (including his leftist detractors) sincerely believes that Trent Lott was literally praising segregation when he lauded then-Gov. Thurmond's 1948 Presidential candidacy. On the contrary, we all are very much aware of the fact that Sen. Lott was merely doing what low-brow politicians the world over invariably do when before a particular audience, i.e. they say whatever will be popular with that given audience. At Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, just days before his retirement as the longest-serving member of the U.S. Senate (and the only member of either House of Congress ever to be elected on a write-in candidacy), making statements in favor of Strom Thurmond was obviously going to be popular.

Unfortunately for Sen. Lott, he forgot about the system of Orwellian thought control known as "Political Correctness" and thus that his career would be destroyed on the basis of his making what was essentially a polite (in that it was Mr. Thurmond's birthday celebration, and hence not an appropriate venue for criticizing "Old Strom") joke. It is entirely permissible to say things derogatory of White Americans, Southrons, Europeans, heterosexuals, men, boys, the USA or Western civilization, but say one word which could possibly be construed as indicative of a less than worshipful attitude towards "diversity," and you are immediately labelled a "Nazi" (Jews and Zionists have long been a special case, in that leftists were permitted to criticize them while others were not, but that is changing rapidly now, as many leftists are finding themselves somewhat quixotically indexed with the admirers of Hitler).

Just once, I'd like to see an American man of the right, particularly a Southron, say something that the whining bellyachers of New York and the District of Criminals do not care for without issuing a mealy-mouthed apology. I mean, their career is over once they say something certain people do not agree with, irrespective of what they do next. They might at least display the intestinal fortitude to go down with their beliefs in hand, rather than crawling along the ground, licking the boots of the headsman, just before he brings down his axe, ala Trent Lott....


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I am in total agreement with this, the one thing that we have to do is pull together and stand for what we are...
SOUTHERNERS!!
we as one people are strong enough to bring back the sovernity of the old south, and if we are to do so as you so well noted, I belive that we are going to have to fight! in all ways possible in the local and state goverment offices and, and for the most we are going to have to fight this war in our own homes.
We as a southern people have to take it to the next level, we need to first seceed, then defend our rights as free peoples!
And if that means another war then I, as my forefathers, are ready to take my place in history...
it will be long,it will be hard, it will be bloody, before its over, but to accomplish this goal we have to sacrifice, and we have to understand the most important thing...
to get the freedom we deserve, we have to speek to the Imperalist northern Goverment in the only language they know...

See what happens when we give you guys a Bill of Rights? Man, you owe the Federalists so much, a stable government, a government, a government, and look what ye'r thinking now. Fine, suscede, we don't need to have to pay for your misfortunes caused by illigal immigration and hurrican's anyway. But----we get the Florida Marlins, and Houston Astros, and we'll give you Hillary Clinton, and.......Ralph Nader.

Sounds Fair?

Ok, nice doing business with you.

I really dont care much for a return of the "Old South", but if the country as a whole became a confederation again the following problems would be solved:

1. Excessive taxation
2. Government control by the military industrial complex
3. Lack of civil rights
4. Economic stagnation..eventually

There really would be few drawbacks and most of the progressive ideas floating around right now in American politics could be put into effect. The only drawback would be the hardship in coverting to a new system of governance.