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| Condor | Jan 21 2007, 11:41 AM Post #1 |
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The South Sucks? By Doug Giles Saturday, January 13, 2007 “Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” -Charles Rangle, New York Congressman, 2006 If you listen to the Ditsy Chicks, if you like Rosie O’Doggerel and if you think John Kerry is cool, then more than likely you assume the South sucks. Yep, our current culture has been brow beaten by the loons on the Left into viewing the South as societal swill. In Hollywood, the hedonistic thought thugs make certain that Southerners are tarred and feathered as inbred, Ricky Bobby, moonshine slammin’, KKKMart shoppin’, fat back eatin’, cousin humpin’ square dancers with three teeth and an IQ of 50. The liberal Belief Police want America to hate the South because the South represents the Secular Regressive’s (SR) chief political and cultural (and armed, I might add) high hurdle. The autoerotic “elite,” which form the intellectually line bred gene pool of the soulless Left, are hell bent to bar from our borders all praises and practices of the principles which have made the South substantial. What are the things that make Dixie so darn good? Well, I know it’s hard for those of you who are wedged up Hollywood’s backside to understand our virtues, but its stuff like author Clint Johnson points out in his predestined to be best-seller The Politically Incorrect Guide to the South (and Why it Will Rise Again) . . . • A strong sense of patriotism that protects the rest of the nation. Dasypygals on the left who incessantly bash the South and hate everything sweet home Alabama stands for ought to eat a little sautéed crow tonight and send the South a thank you card in the morning, as the South makes up the overwhelming majority of the armed forces who protect our country and are willing to take a bullet for these ungrateful and derisive jackasses. The South accounts for 35% of the population, but 41% of the military recruits. • A conscience about race relations. Johnson states, “The South has never denied its role in perpetuating slavery. The South and only the South have apologized profusely for its role in slavery.” Since the slave days, “black income in the region has steadily increased, neighborhoods have been integrated, black politicians have been elected to major offices, and black business people have emerged to head national corporations. In the south regional patriotism trumps race any old day.” And if the South hates blacks the way the way your lesbian US History teacher says they do, then why, according to the 2003 US Census Bureau, are hundreds of thousands of blacks blowing off the North and moving down South, huh? • A sense of morals and religion. The fact that we haven’t flushed God and Christ down the toilet, as the anti-Christ secularists want us to do, has made the liberal, tassel-shoed Nancy’s have a hissy. When other sectors of our society are shamefully caving to the godless cabal’s secular agenda and keeping quite about their convictions, the South sits back, yawns, scratches its belly, and then shoots these glib sisters a defiant rebel finger. In addition, no matter how much the liberal Presidential dopefuls play the “we like Jesus and Moses, too” card in the upcoming ’08 election, the South isn’t fooled. We see the fecal fumes coming off their heads. Serious faith is a southern thang, a conservative thang, and not a 21st century liberal thang. • A welcoming environment for business. WalMart (the world’s largest retailer), Exxon, FedEx, Coca-Cola, Lowe’s, Delta, Krispy Kreme, Toyota, Honda, Saturn, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes and Home Depot (as well as a slew of others) are finding that they don’t need Rust Belt to rake in the cash as the Bible Belt is working mighty fine for them. • A creative atmosphere. Clint further prods the north by taunting them with their lack of creativity. He states that, “few folks think about ‘northern literature,’ but there is an abundance of southern literature. There’s no such thing as northern music. I’m sorry, rap is a NY derivative. But then again rap is not music. There is, though, country music, southern rock, southern jazz, southern blues and bluegrass. CJ goes on to say that “there is something about southern lovers, rivers, dogs, ex-wives, ex-husbands, magnolias, pine trees, eccentrics, and soldiers that keep writers and musicians inspired. “ • Real men. “Southern men are gentlemen, but they’re also uncompromising, opinionated, and won’t defer to what ‘the group’ wants. . . . ” America needs men who stick by their guns and southern men do just that. Southern men, saith Clint, don’t flip flop; they stick to the convictions and principles they got from their families. Remember families? • Real women. Unlike the female chauvinist pigs on the Left, Southern women are charming and ladylike and like their menfolk, they have backbones of steel. Also, note to single guys: from Georgia peaches to Mississippi belles, there’s no doubt about it: southern women are prettier. Since the first Miss America pageant in 1921, one-third of the winners have been Southern. In the latest installment of the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide™ series, The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the South (and Why it Will Rise Again), author Clint Johnson exposes the controversial truth—the South is the essence of what’s original, unique, and most-loved about American culture. From the founding fathers to the frontier explorers, rock and roll to the movies, barbecue to sweet tea, NASCAR to NASA, slavery to segregation, no ugly rumor will be left standing in this book (from the press release). “Today, there is an open, not-at-all-secret conspiracy to erase Dixie and all vestiges of the old South from public memory. The South is all about memory, heritage, and pride of place. I refuse to go along with the expunging of that memory, heritage, and pride. Only those things give us a true understanding of what it means to be a Southerner, and an American,” says Johnson. And here’s a few more things that secular reality stylists don’t want you to know about the South: • Southerners wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and Bill of Rights • The Civil War was not a true civil war, nor was it driven by slavery • Southern women had independence, equality, and freedom decades before suffrage • The South, not the West, started the Hollywood movie scene, blues, jazz, and rock and roll My advice to those who want to engage the secularists in the culture clash: Buy Johnson’s book and get deprogrammed. What Clint has penned about the South is well researched, and it’s funnier than a loud fart in church. You will not here this stuff within the haggard halls of revisionist universities. More than likely, towards the middle of the book (if you love the US and how it was originally constituted) you’ll start whistlin’ Dixie, which was, by the way, one of Abe Lincoln’s favorite songs. * Logon to www.ClashRadio.com and watch Giles’ new video blurb: “How to be a Soulless Vapid Waste of Space.” In addition, listen to Doug’s interview with hunting/firearms expert and activist, Kelsey Hilderbrand of www.luvtohunt.com . ClashTV can be seen throughout the week on NRB TV DirectTV Channel 378. Doug Giles is the creator and host of The Clash radio shows, winners of seven Silver Microphone Awards and two Communicator Awards in the last three years, and a contributing columnist on Townhall.com. Be the first to read Doug Giles' column. Sign up today and receive Townhall.com delivered each morning to your inbox. Sign up today! Copyright © 2006 Salem Web Network. All Rights Reserved. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGil...the_south_sucks |
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| Almtnman | Jan 21 2007, 01:44 PM Post #2 |
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One other thing about the south that I might have missed in your post is also interesting if one thinks about it for a while. I do a lot of genealogical research in my spare time, been doing it since I was about 17 years old and found a lot of info during all those years. So here goes, I found that most of the originators of this country probably have ancestors that live in the south. This is the people that got this country underway when it was first formed. Here's how it went. They came over by ship and landed at Ellis Island, Charleston, Savannah and most of the ports on the Atlantic. They came because they didn't like their Motherland and wanted something different. After the Revolutionary War, they wanted to homestead new land and the government gave away large tracts to get them to migrate so the new homeland could become populated. If you actually served in the Revolutionary War, the government gave you 640 acres for every term you served. One of my ancestors served four terms, one for himself and three for 3 of his brothers, so he got a lot of land and divided it out with the family. There wasn't any population on the western side of the Appalachians becaue all of the land west of there was Indian territory and very few ventured there expect for a few brave one's, longhunters and mountainmen. The ones that did migrate across suffered greatly from indian raids and many were killed and their homesteads burnt to the ground. So the migration route was down from up north along the eastern side of the Appalachians going down through PA, VA, NC, SC, GA, AL and then turned westward from that point. Some went over the Cumberland Gap, but meet a lot of resistance in the indian lands, so the majority kept pushing in a southernly direction until they got down to Georgia and Alabama and then headed west settling in all the places that I mentioned and continuing on westward. They brought with them the original language that had came with them from the original motherland. All this is very well documented when you do a little checking, so in essence when you talk about the south, you're talking about the very original settlers of America. These people were the proud and brave to migrate and take in new lands to build this country to what it is today. |
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| GRITS | Jan 21 2007, 01:58 PM Post #3 |
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I DID IT POST RESTORED!!!!!! Test-A-Fy - truth only hurts the guilty. One of the dirty secrets of the Civil War was that slavery would not have been a Southern institution if not for the industrial northeast. The best cotton on Earth grows in the South; it is better than the north african or Indian varieties, with longer thread and greater volume, and it takes less of it to make textiles. The mills of the North wouldn't have been able to compete without the Southern variety of cotton; they produced the cotton textile that Britain marketed to Europe, and the British economy was critically dependant on it. Despite the Union blockade there was an understanding that the North would allow the export of Southern cotton by any means - because the northern textile mills would have gone out of business during the war otherwise (they nearly did after the war - thanks to the destruction of nearly all Southern cotton plantations). There was simply not enough manpower in the South for cotton plantations to meet the huge demand of northern textile mills without resorting to slave labor. The other dirty little secret is Reconstruction - one of the main aims of it was to restore cotton production as quickly as possible; the Northern mill owners were breathing down Washington's neck to get the industry back up running. The British were going to other sources (mainly India) for their cotton cloth and the Northern textile industry so critical to Northern prosperity was on the verge of collapse. The "Carpetbagger" was a Northerner who bought an abandoned plantation (at a rock bottom price from the Union authorities) and tried to get it up and running again. They would pay ex-slaves to work cotton - unfortunately ex-slaves wanted no part of cotton ever again, even for pay. In fact they wanted the plantations divided up into subsistance farms for food production. No way! The much touted "40 acres and a mule" came a distant second to the Northern need for a resurrected cotton industry. This led to the astonishing and wide practice of Union troops rounding up "vagrant" ex-slaves and taking them to Carpetbagger-owned plantations, where they were forced to work cotton for wages. This practice initiated the migration of ex-slaves to the North to escape compulsory paid labor on plantations. "It ain't slavery - we pay them!" These Carpetbagger plantations only stayed in business as long as the Union Army was in the South to provide a workforce of unwilling laborers. Once the Union Army withdrew and large numbers of ex-slaves had left the South, these plantations failed for the most part, and the Northern textile industry began its decline - triggering mass unemployment and depression in the North. Plantations went from slave labor to the sharecropper system - and the federal government embarked on the long lived farm subsidy system to keep Southern agricultural production at as high a level as possible. The KKK? It's greatest numbers are in NORTHERN states! It's rise there was triggered by the influx of ex-slaves willing to work for less, who displaced white Northern factory workers from their jobs in large numbers - leading to the large Westward Migration of the postwar era. In fact once the majority vote was returned to Southern whites after Reconstruction, the original Klan disbanded. Their goal - ending the disenfranchisement of ex-Confederates and ending the political rule of Carpetbaggers - had been achieved. What passes for the "Klan" today was in fact revived by the NORTHERN KLANSMEN whose problem - black employment competition - was still a serious ongoing problem. One of the best books about the Southern Army - "Company Aytch" - describes the common soldier's feeling that it was a "rich man's war but a poor man's fight"; how most soldiers considered themselves "Union men" with little sympathy for the Secessionist Cause - the "Rich Man's Cause" led by wealthy Southern whites. "Why do we fight the Yankees? Because they're here!" was the credo of the large majority of Confederate soldiers. They cared little about helping the rich plantation owners keep their slave empire - it only deprived them of needed work on plantations! Why hire whites for wages when slaves work for free? Yet vengeful Northern radicals reserved their worst treatment for poor Southern whites, and deprived them of the right to vote even after they had taken loyalty oaths to the Constitution as the federal government demanded as a condition for regaining the right to vote. Like the author of Company Aytch I am a Southern Union Man. The most obscene part of it all is that this destruction was the result of northeastern Puritan-Cromwell Republican hatred of their former Scots-Irish and Royalist opponents of the English Civil War, who had settled mainly in the South. The American Civil War was in fact a REPLAY of the English Civil War! The place you find the worst lingering hate for "Rebels" is in the predominately old English states of New England! The same batch of hypocrites who benefited most from the textile based northeast economy that relied on Southern slave labor for the cheap materials that made New England prosperous! Truth only hurts the guilty. CHINA MUST BE DESTROYED |
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| Almtnman | Jan 21 2007, 04:21 PM Post #4 |
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Now that I backed up and deleted all the bottom posts, lets stay on topic with this thread. The topic is not about the here and now or hatred of any part of the country or whether you're an American, Chinese or any other nationality, it's about the past and what happened back then, so stick with that thread if you post here any farther. If you don't know what happened in the past, I would suggest that you study up on it before posting about what happens in the present. I will not tolerate injecting what happened in the past with anyone's viewpoint of the present day time. If it happens again and I have to do more altering to this topic, I will just close it. |
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| GRITS | Jan 21 2007, 04:49 PM Post #5 |
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In the spirit of the kind soul who raised me, Gentle Southern Lady if I have given offense thusly do I make amends we are One People Indivisable I know no other loyalty and have no Other Friends unto the Death CHINA MUST BE DESTROYED |
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| legitlinda | Jan 21 2007, 05:08 PM Post #6 |
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Grits, You certainly are a Southern Gentleman and we are grateful for you kind apology and offer ours in return. Sincerely, Linda and Cottonpicker
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| Almtnman | Jan 21 2007, 05:39 PM Post #7 |
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| Almtnman | Jan 21 2007, 05:44 PM Post #8 |
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| Almtnman | Jan 21 2007, 06:02 PM Post #9 |
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| STEVEN1 | Jan 21 2007, 06:47 PM Post #10 |
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to answer the gentleman(?????????????) from new york: i want to live in mississippi. have been for 44 years. and talk to military retirees who are settling down in mississippi. the question should be who in their right mind wants to move to new york? (no offense to any forum member from new york.) and don't get me started about theb dishonorable female senator they have. i will also continue to defend my president and country. been doing it for 23 years now and i'm not ready to retire. i might even be joining my unit to go back to the sandbox. volunteered to go last time with a different unit when my unit's mission was postponed due to hurricane katrina. liberal politicians are doing every thing they can to keep their pampered brats out of the military until the war in iraq is over. hell, bring back the draft just to get the little pampered brats. it'll do them some good. teach them how to be human. and southern women are the strongest women in the world. they raise their kids to be respectful, well mannered, and GOD fearing. they handle stress very well and can cope with life's little (and big) issues. i should know because my mom is from the south and so is my wife. with all that said i will stay in the south. the north is too crowded for me. give me wide open spaces, beautiful forests, a shoreline on the gulf coast, the best food in the world, the prettiest girls around, and the friendliest people in the entire world. |
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| Condor | Jan 21 2007, 10:04 PM Post #11 |
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Looks like I missed the fun. Our network was down until just a few minutes ago. My daughter was working to secure it and learned that security comes with a cost. Finally gave up and restored it to the original form. We keep the power low and feel fairly secure in that. A network becomes a PITA when you have to secure it to the point that a visitor has to be cinfigured to get on the network. Had enough of that in the past and had rather keep it open unless I see an actual baud rate and bit count rise. |
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| Wild Bill | Jan 22 2007, 01:16 AM Post #12 |
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It amazes me to this day, that I still have to explain how I can be proud of bein a Redneck.. Even tho most times I seem to be explainin that fact to folks from Arkansas and Misery, I mean Missouri.. It is true that we do live a different lifestyle, but that dont mean its a BAD THANG.. And I can also understand that many in the nothern climes may not want to take part in the culture.. But they have a different Code of Ethics and Morals than we in the South do and that suits me fine.. If they dont want to live down here and I dont want to live up there, then sounds like thangs are as they should be.. Works to both our advantage !! But when the North tries to impose Nationwide stipulations(as they did before the War Between The States) on us, thats when I get my Union Suit in a wad !! Charlie Rangel seems to have a problem with the South.. What zactly is his problem with us anyway ?? Is it that we dont agree with abortion ?? Higher taxes ?? We are Patriotic ?? WE DONT like Hilary ?? We honor the 2nd Amendment ?? Well, he better get over it !! Unless he wants to have a War Between The States again, he better get used to the fact that we aint gonna like Hilary no matter what they say !! Other than that, no matter how many Stars and Bars and Statues they remove from public places , it aint gonna change the facts of it !! Just goes to show that they can still be led around by that rang that the Massa put in their noses !! And that Massa aint anywhere close to bein from the South or Dixie.. |
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| Condor | Jan 22 2007, 10:28 AM Post #13 |
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Y'know, Charlie Rangels stock ain't too high on my big board either. |
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| Toothless Dawg | Jan 22 2007, 10:31 AM Post #14 |
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I've had good experiences with folk from all over this country. However, of all the places to live in America, I'll choose Dixie every time. |
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| ROCKY TOP | Jan 22 2007, 02:13 PM Post #15 |
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Agree with ya on that Dawg. Lots of good reading so far. There was a similar topic on CDB that got zapped last year, it's good see it again. Strange how we're portrayed by the media. I lived in a good many places growing up. An inner city school in Mich. and a school down south where the play ground was almost backed up to a cotton field. It's ok to be proud of where you're from unless you're from Dixie. But I'll tell ya, just the word "Dixie" makes me smile.
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| Condor | Jan 22 2007, 02:17 PM Post #16 |
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I attribute most of what I hear about the south to people who are trying to get above the crowd by pushing everyone else down instead of trying to uplift themselves. It takes a lot of work to uplift yourself and that is why they choose the other alternative. I saw that a lot in my last job. I was in a pretty technical office and the people there weren't very technical, but tried to look better than all the rest. It started to show when we got a 15% incentive for professional certification. The ones who were living on the backs of others never did get the 15%. Somehow, they disliked that program. |
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| Toothless Dawg | Jan 22 2007, 03:03 PM Post #17 |
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... and I bet that according to them, it was NEVER their problem ... it was the incentive program or someone following too close to the bosses tail end. Ain't that aggravating. One of my big pet peeves are those who are quick to label someone 'redneck' or 'trailer trash' ... Like Wild Bill, I usually let 'em know that I'm right proud to be a redneck. Have been known to tell 'em, "Well I certainly understand your feelings, I see how far you've advanced yourself in life" ... and it usually drips with sarcasm :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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| GRITS | Jan 22 2007, 04:38 PM Post #18 |
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May be wanderin here and Mtnman has a good compass in that direction, so I'll try to keep it straight. This is an important topic but ya have to be careful cause we're sailin in some thick fog and ya might sink a friend. My take on this? Well you do something REAL bad and you benefit from it - but you know deep down ya did wrong, and even though ya got away with it, it might catch up to your kids someday. So ya make it worse - you cook up another bad to protect yourself from the first bad - a bad that makes the first bad look like a good. A bunch of smart rich fellas got together and cooked up a plan that would allow them to go outside the Constitution to get even richer. They didn't think about the terrible harm they'd do, they just thought about the pot o gold at the end of the Rainbow. They got their pot; then they had to think of a way to keep it - they know it was stolen down and dirty. So they cooked up a real convincin' story about how what they did was a good thing, and everybody who has a share of their stolen gold has an interest in keepin the story alive. You got to take the good with the bad, just make sure none of that dirty loot is in your pocket before ya speak. So the northern factory owners and the southern plantation owners kicked their plan off - and the bigger smarter thieves won. Of course they're gonna howl about what a dirty thief the loser is. Too late to do anything about it now; but you can pick the pearls out of the cow caca. Secession is wrong - you can't allow it if you hold to the Constitution - either for Southern states or any other state that tries it. Unloadin on your neighbor is wrong - unless he unloads on you first - but it's wrong either way if you could have solved the problem without shootin. Lincoln could have done it without shootin, and in my opinion when he resorted to shootin he joined up with the northern factory owners and their plan. Now when his people wanted to have a hangin spree in the South after the war he stepped up and said "I want yall to join me in my favorite song - Dixie". Then he got shot and the only real friend the South had was gone. Then the Hangin Spree crowd got their way - and Rangel and his crowd are the same. Just as Lincoln fought a war to keep his country, he would not have allowed any part of that country to be abused - even by his friends. Them that still hate the South? Well Old Honest Abe wouldn't have had anything good to say about them. That was His South too - he thought it was worthy enough to fight over. When you spit at the South you're spittin at him too. But that's what I expect from a second rate hack like Rangel. CHINA MUST BE DESTROYED |
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| ROCKY TOP | Jan 22 2007, 05:17 PM Post #19 |
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My grandpaw use to say a man can play smooch butt all he wants but it can't take the place of hard work. I found a slight flaw in grandpaws bit of wisdom though. There's some who like getting their butt smooched. |
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| Toothless Dawg | Jan 22 2007, 05:36 PM Post #20 |
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Boy you got that stuff right!!!! I was going to say you see that a ton in government service but then I remember seeing it in private industry also. My dad left school after the 9th grade, spent 30 years in the Navy ... enlisted in WWII as E1 ... went into submarines ... retired as Commander. His philosophy was molded on some senior officers he had served with (captains and admirals). They said they did NOT want any yes men serving under them. They wanted officers and men who knew how to say NO and present their side of the issue. It appears that somewhere along the line, we lost that attitude. |
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| ROCKY TOP | Jan 27 2007, 01:14 PM Post #21 |
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There is a subject that is disputed and even thought of as impossible in todays PC world and the black community, black slave owners in the old south. You don't hear this from black leaders like Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton. Issues and Views is a black conservative online magazine. During this country’s period of slavery, many freed blacks worked for years to purchase the freedom of family members. But a great many freemen became slave masters themselves, and for the same reason as whites--to make use of slave labor for the sake of profits. Larry Koger writes, "By and large, Negro slaveowners were darker copies of their white counterparts." Following are excerpts from Chapter 6 of his book, Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 [University of South Carolina Press]. Black Slave Owners |
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| ROCKY TOP | Jan 27 2007, 01:30 PM Post #22 |
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Where's the mule? “On January 16 1865 Union general William T. Sherman issued his Special Field Order No. 15, which confiscated as Federal property a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. John's River in Florida, including Georgia's sea islands and the mainland thirty miles in from the coast. The order redistributed the roughly 400,000 acres of land to newly freed black families in forty-acre segments.” No mule |
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| gobblerblaster | Jan 27 2007, 02:07 PM Post #23 |
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Condor and Mountian man I trully feel like I am among compatriots. We who place are GOD or family, our culture, and our rights to own a gun,live in the woods and drive pick-up trucks above all else seem to be in the minority in this country but Im glad I live in a place where the odds are a little closer to even. I really don't care what city folk think of me or my lifestyle. I can look in the miror everday and be proud of who I am and what i teach my kids. Im a southern boy and proud of it GET OUT OF THE RAT RACE THE RAT IS WINNING |
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| Almtnman | Jan 27 2007, 04:27 PM Post #24 |
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gobblerblaster, if only there was a way to keep making people from other areas think that the South Sux's, then we would have it all to ourselves. But unfortunately too many people are finding out about the south and moving here and it's becoming a little crowded now. A lot that moves to the south adapts and even takes up the southern drawl going to classes to learn how to speak slower so they fit in without being noticed. Then some shows up and tries to bring another way of life and attempts to fit it into the south which is a dead giveaway that they don't fit in. I've been all over the U.S., met a lot of very nice folks in all parts of the country and made many friends, but it's just doesn't get much better than living in the south. The weather is nice, the scenery is nice, we have plenty of big trees, many rivers and lakes and even a beach to go to. I'm afraid our secret is getting out now and we're going to see more and more people moving to the south.
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| bsb006 | Jan 27 2007, 04:59 PM Post #25 |
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I love the idea of the south....but unless the summer temps drop there - You are not getting me!!! I am one less yankee you have to worry about..... |
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| Almtnman | Jan 27 2007, 05:16 PM Post #26 |
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We have air conditioning for those not used to the heat, just don't tell anyone about it though.
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| Wild Bill | Jan 27 2007, 07:31 PM Post #27 |
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A bunch of people dont consider Texas as bein in the "South" or part of Dixie.. I find that kinda strange since I live about 6 blocks from a Confederate Monument and bout a mile west of where a large Rebel Trainin Camp was located.. Kinda hurts my po widde feewins !! Well, not really.. Kinda like Flo used to say, "they can kiss my grits" !! snicker snicker |
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| Condor | Jan 27 2007, 08:13 PM Post #28 |
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I traveled the world and have lived in some amazing places. The coldest national capitol, the highest, the most radioactive, and the most polluted. I lived in different areas of the US. I retired to here. I could have retired to anyplace in the world and here is where I wanted to be more than any other. |
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| ROCKY TOP | Jan 27 2007, 08:17 PM Post #29 |
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The six flags that have flown over Texas are: Spain. 1519-1685; 1690-1821. France. 1685-1690, That hurts. Mexico. 1821-1836 Republic of Texas. 1836-1845 The Confederacy. 1861-1865 US. 1845-1861; 1865-Present You wont see the Stars and Bars at any Six Flags Theme park????? There you go Bill.
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| Almtnman | Jan 27 2007, 09:34 PM Post #30 |
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That's them politically correct folks Bill...don't pay no attention to them.
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| Toothless Dawg | Jan 27 2007, 10:07 PM Post #31 |
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Wild Bill, Kinda like my feelings when someone sez Virginia is not a part of the south ... even though Richmond was the capitol of the confederacy ... and other reasons as well!!! |
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| gobblerblaster | Jan 30 2007, 12:09 AM Post #32 |
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I live in Oklahoma and most people don't think of this as the South, I live about nine 'mile ' from an old Confederate fort and about a half mile from were the battle of Jayvine hill was fought. I lived in the land of fruits and nuts (California , no offense) for ten years and I was never happier than to get back to GODS country. I remember trying to by a gun there ounce and they told me to fill out paper work and come back in a week, then I went to Oakland and was offered several out of the trunk of a guys car I dream of being in Californy sometimes and wake up in a cold sweat.
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| countrymouse | Jan 30 2007, 07:16 AM Post #33 |
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i thought texas was a country unto itself!
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