Some Leftist Northerners are now wondering (after more than two centuries of a failed experiment) whether it’s time to separate from Southerners. Author Chuck Thompson, who it was noted in a Salon.com article (that is re-posted from Alternet.org) recently ‘toured the American South’ as if Dixie were an exotic, far-flung country, attempts to convince his Progressive readers that North and South separation is the best solution. He says:
One of the goals of this book really was to more or less articulate — to put some facts, figures and research behind — a lot of this frustration of Northern and Southern liberals, of which there are many. I encountered many Southern liberals while conducting my research.
There’s this seething frustration people have. There’s this kneejerk reaction to blame the South. The sort of Northern media strafing of the South for a lot of the nation’s ills is a longstanding tradition. What I wanted to do was to get away from the traditional stereotypes of the dim-witted, mouth-breathing, Southern racist redneck and really look at what’s going on today. Find out why people are still having these issues with the South, and put some hard research and some facts and figures behind this general unease with the influence that the South has on the rest of the country.
Any dialog that convinces people of the merits of Southern independence is certainly to be welcomed. However, it is worth noting that the Northern Left-wingers at Salon.com and Alternet.org are at least entertaining the idea because they hate us (which is fine with me). Notice the overt hostility to the South from an interviewer who calls the South ‘an English-speaking Mexico’ and then describes it as a ‘third-world country with crappy education systems, no health care, and a government of snake handlers.’ If that sort of harsh rhetoric and anti-Southern stereotype bothers you then be sure not to read the comments – because it’s only downhill from there.
After reading this article, I am reminded of a quotation from leading Fire-Eater and Southern secessionist Robert Barnwell Rhett:
The South must dissever itself from the rotten Northern element.
Perhaps the Northern Progressive at Salon and Alternet could agree with this, only in reverse. If so, that’s definitely good. And since we’re quoting Rhett, we might as well consider:
The star-spangled banner no longer waves in triumph and glory for me. …If a Confederacy of the Southern States could now be obtained, should we not deem it a happy termination – happy beyond expectation, of our long struggle for our rights against oppression?
I’m beginning to wonder if us white Southeners would be better off without self-emasculated white Yankee leftists.
The answer, Joe Reb, is most definitely ‘Yes!’
Strange, that Yankees cite surveys and studies pointing out ‘Southron’ social ills such as poor education systems when those problems are actually the result of large numbers of blacks in the South. Whites in the South are as well educated, intelligent and law abiding as whites anywhere. Yet the Yanks ignore reality in favour of the multi-cult diversity delusion.
I love the comments on that article…and they dare to say we’re hate filled.
Harold Crews..I’d say the education system is the way it is in the South because it’s a Yankee education system that coddles minorities and teaches to the lowest common denominator.
Plus, I don’t believe all the bravo sierra that test scores in the north are better than the south, especially given what happened in the Atlanta City Schools a few years ago when the union (mostly black) teachers changed the test answers so they could score better. My guess is that’s been going on in NYC and Chicago for a long time. Either that or they’re not counting black/minority scores up there while they are down here….which is probably more the truth..
In addition to opening up the a discussion regarding Southern secession, I’m hoping that Chuck Thompson can convince his countrymen who now reside in the South to return home.
Yes, Anti-Federalist, that would be fantastic.
@ Confederate Papist. “I’d say the education system is the way it is in the South because it’s a Yankee education system that coddles minorities and teaches to the lowest common denominator.”
Well said and very true! I work in that system and do what I can to combat the PC policies and practices that the Yankee-run system demands. There is a concerted effort to dumb-down the system & give extra benefits to minorities, all while discriminating against whites (very blatantly I might add).
If Mr. Thompson were able to influence the North to the point of agreeing to let the south go her own way, most carpet baggers would leave and those that don’t would have to rounded up and shipped north or west. Then the illegal alien 3rd worlders would have to be round up and put on slow boats back to Mexico. This would be ardous at best and time/money intensive, not to mention that the northeners would, like the rest of the world, would accuse us of being bigots, racists, xenophobes, etc. Not that I am against kicking the stay behind northers and 3d wolders out. Just ponting out some potential issues that we will have to address when we do obtain our independence. Just my thoughts.
Deo Vindice
Regarding Mr. Thompson convincing his fellows to leave, I personally know one such Yankee who asked a friend that keeps tabs on these sorts of things to “warn him” so he could “get out” just before it happened. So there’s at least one Yank who is leaving when we secede. I’m sure others will join him.
Harold Crews on August 14, 2012 at 6:24 pm
Strange, that Yankees cite surveys and studies pointing out ‘Southron’ social ills such as poor education systems when those problems are actually the result of large numbers of blacks in the South. Whites in the South are as well educated, intelligent and law abiding as whites anywhere….
The whole “Southern Poverty and Ignorance MEME” should be questioned.
This is a real repeater—- and it only OBSCURES how necessary the Northeast “Nanny State” has been for them (even as they pretend to be a “meritocracy,” lol). They “merited” things by importing mercenaries to fight for the “union” in 1865. They “merited” it by creating the First Secular Feudalism (collecting tithes on the basis of nothing).
They are NOT kings, or queens, or popes, or even what they worship, in place of those people—the Big Business Overseer. Which is what the Secular Feudalism had them bow down to in the “industrial revolution,” along with their precious time clocks.
The South was not poor, nor ignorant—- until they militarily slaughtered people and took their stuff.
That’s what they are trying to obscure. Mark my word. They HATE that they couldn’t compete with pioneers.
They HATE that they had to get things in a “Nanny State.” It proves they couldn’t cut it. The whole system proves they could not abide by a free system. (It had to become stealing-tryanny for them to “win.”)
It’s time to question this “Southern Poverty Meme.” Isn’t that THEIR word? Shall we speak of the Northeast Enrichment by using foreigners for their violence?
Shall we consider how they got their Nanny State stuff? Meritocracy, lmao!
What student WOULD DO WELL—– in an anti-white, anti-southern System?
Of course a Southerner rebels! It’s not a matter of IQ, lol. (In facts, studies show this). But many simply CANNOT BRING THEMSELVES to become what the Northeasterners do—- how they have to be, to “get ahead.”
It would be too thorough a debasement.
Better to be poverty-stricken and look IGNORANT (in an anti-white, anti-southern) situation some seem to have decided.
Bible based people see the unrighteousness, and walk away—- even if they could have gotten rich.
They are not so much poor, perhaps— AS UNCORRUPTED. (There is so little clean work nowadays)
Spot on, Dixiegirl. The workplace is as corrupted as everything else. The other day at work, I forgot to fulfill a duty I had on my shift. I didn’t realise it until the next morning. It quite literally woke me up when I realised it. I immediately threw on some clothes and rushed to my job to let them know (I even had my uniform with me in case they wanted me to get dressed and finish the job off the clock, which I would have willingly done). Instead they were surprised (albeit pleasantly so) that I had the gumption to admit my mistake. The manager thanked me like I had done something noble and unexpected. But this is how I was raised. If you make a mistake, you own up to it and accept whatever consequences come your way. I don’t feel like I did anything noble, special, or praiseworthy. But that’s because I grew up in a system that *expects* this kind of attitude. Where owning up to your mistakes is a duty, not a rare and noble act.
But regarding education, I have another anecdote from my life, that relates to this. Among the many reasons already listed as to why Southern schools seem to be “lacking” in comparison to Yankee schools is that everything about us, even our accent, is considered a handicap. I had to take some sort of placement test before kindergarten so they would know whether to put me in the normal class of kindergartners or the one for less-than-gifted children. The lady who gave me this test asked me a number of questions. I answered every one of them satisfactorily, but always in a thick Southern accent (boy did I have a thick Southern accent back then. Sad to say that too many years stuck in Yankeeland have diminished it.) and because of my accent, she assumed I was slow, and wanted to put me in the less-than-gifted section. All because I was and sounded like a Southern boy. Thankfully my mom objected and got a second opinion, whose comment after the test was, “What was her problem?” (referring to the lady who gave me the first test.)