The ongoing genocide (as defined under international law) through demographic displacement of Southern people and culture continues in North Carolina. A flood of Northerners and foreigners has radically altered not only the ethnic and cultural make-up of the State but has also predictably transformed the Old North State politically. Bill Barrow and Susanne Schafter have an article on this for the Associated Press:
North Carolina’s population has nearly doubled since 1970, fueled by an economic expansion that brought an influx of Midwesterners, Northeasterners and nonwhites and turning the state from a Republican presidential stronghold into a battleground.
Among the new residents: Carol Fentiman, 66, a Chicago native who retired with her husband to the western Carolina mountains seven years ago from California and is a Democratic Party volunteer. And Piper Phillips, 18, a college student who moved here a year ago from Ohio and who will cast her first presidential ballot this year for Barack Obama.
To explain their upcoming votes, both cited women’s health care and abortion rights, civil rights for gay Americans and equal pay for women.
Notice that these outsiders are not content with enjoying the better weather and friendlier people in the South. They immediately set to work trying to change things to make the South politically and socially like where they originate. Essentially, Southerners are being colonised by a very different people (those such as Fentiman and Phillips) with a completely different worldview.
As a native North Carolinian I have witness this transformation. So many north-easterners and mid-westerners have flooded the Old North State (particularly in the RTP and Charlotte areas) that native North Carolinians are hopelessly outnumbered. I recall speaking to a gentleman once and he asked where am I from. When I told him that I am from NC he said to me “there aren’t many people left in North Carolina who are from North Carolina.” That’s why I plan to escape to South Carolina.
And by the way has anyone noticed that having so many people from outside of the state move in is accepted as a positive? When people do this what they are implying is that they find the native people and culture as reprehensible or undesired. Otherwise they would seek to preserve the native culture. Instead they invite outsiders in hopes of replacing the the undesirable native culture.
Anti-Federalist, that’s a good point. Imagine if Mexicans embraced vast numbers of non-Mexicans in Mexico – to the point where few people living in Mexico were actually Mexican and most people there no longer had much respect for Mexican culture or voted like traditional Mexicans. What would it say about the Mexican people if they thought this were a good thing? It would clearly say that they had little to no respect for their people and culture and that they supported their own elimination.
I meet some people who tell me this is ‘change’ and that ‘change’ is inevitable and that not embracing it is a bad thing. That sort of thinking implies that I should embrace whatever happens. It says that the elimination of my people is something I should embrace as inevitable. Meanwhile other people are not being eliminated. Why is that? It’s a very strange mentality and one that is definitely tied to the Northern view of Progress and linear history.
Here is a story about the city of Charlotte “still draws them in.” Notice how this story presents the idea of foreign peoples transplanting themselves into a former Southern city as a great and wonderful thing. They call Charlotte as the “city of transplants” (how wonderful!!!) A few weeks ago when I was in Huntersville (a suburb of Charlotte) there were so many north-easterners that it felt more like being at Coney Island than it was being in the South.
http://ui.uncc.edu/story/city-transplants-still-draws-them
Michael,
We all know that Mexicans or any other nationality would not accept foreigners coming into their lands and displacing their people or culture. What’s not mentioned is that Mexico has very tough immigration laws and people from outside of Mexico (even Spanish speaking people from Central and South America) are never considered to be full Mexicans. We also know that according to the laws of Political Correctness, only Whites are required to invite foreigners to come in and displace their indigenous culture for the sake of “diversity.” We all know that the word “diversity” means non-White. For example, a school that is 80% White would be accused of being non-diverse. At the same time, a school that is 95% black or Spanish would never be accused of lacking diversity.
Michael,
Please reference my post on Facebook. I live in North Carolina, so my contempt for this issue will be evident to any who reads my Facebook reply to this. I am to the point that the infestation of northern trash in my homeland is about to induce me to vomit. I’m fed up with this. Although I have issues with a relative inaction on the part of most Southerners, I do applaud Michael for his work.
Veritas vos liberabit
(Laughter)
No offense Mr. PhDCE, but if I reside in Ohio, but had southern relatives, and came to live in your state, does that make me “northern trash”??
TNSD, I don’t think it would. Remember that kith and kin is a part of our identity. When I read his comment about “Northern Trash” I understood it in the context of, “Full-blooded Yankees through and through, who see our people and culture as inferior and evil, and wish to transform the South into a New Yankeeland.” From what I know of you from your posts on this site, I would not for a moment entertain the notion that you fall into this category.
Virginian Secessionist,
I would agree with that and believe you are correct.
Sometimes I worry, though, when blanket statements are made.
However, I’ve been guilty of that myself in the past, so I guess I need to read into something in the context from which the statement was made.
Again, I believe your observation is probably spot on, and I shouldn’t be so quick to jump to conclusions….
Hope that made sense!
LOL!!!—–
HERE is AP at their most Genocidal:
“….North Carolina’s growth is due to economic diversification that distinguished the state from its Southern neighbors. An agrarian and manufacturing economy dominated by tobacco, furniture and textiles gave way to banking centers in Charlotte, myriad health care enterprises and the biomedical…”
Look at how they TOTALLY BURY that any POLICY ORIENTED DECISIONS UNDERWROTE the land redistribution acts!
Gee… wonder what happened to “the tobacco industry?” —– How embarrassing for AP not to point out that THE TOBACCO ACTS (with other policies) made the land CHEAP ENOUGH for the Yankee money fleece machine that turns places in to Detroit
—- they undermined a product (tobacco by OUTLAWING IT…in their “free market” lol)—- as well as TEXTILES, THEN put in “health care” and BANKING…
Just read it!!!—— This is the mentality of the average AP writer exposed for the world to see.
Talk about being unable to think, to feel, to put two-and-two together.
And is the “left” really this married to non-productive economies (“health care”— hopping people die, lol— and BANKING instead of textiles and tobacco.)
And note: they created policies to rid the world of products that create new wealth, then replaced it with non-productive money (i.e. interest income from banks).
Why can’t they see how dumb they are? How Genocidal?
Tobacco Acts of 1965—- Do you have a brain, AP?
Oh—- destroying the livelihood of a people by creating policies making their lives impossible IS GENOCIDE.
THAT’S just one aspect of it exposed by AP without them realizing it.
Sorry—- just figured it went without saying. NC (along with VA/ KY) were largest Tobacco producers, with NC producing more than twice as much as the other states. Think it was something like the 3rd largest producer in the world, lol—- like more than some country economies.
How do they live with themselves? Do yankees ever notice how heavy the blinders are that they must wear on their eyes to not notice any form of world going on all around them?
The Silence Do Good,
I actually appreciate your post because it highlights exactly what I’m talking about. There are a couple of things that are really interesting. You are correct, this is our state, not yours. Don’t like the fact that we don’t want you here? Stay home. Mind you, when I say you, that is not directed at you per se. But yes, that is a fair assessment. A growing number of us are getting sick and tired of having to listen to Northern rudeness and snobbery here in North Carolina. It’s ruining our property value.
What is the ironic thing here is apparently you northern types don’t like it when us little ol’ Southerners express disdain for you. You people up there think you can talk to us however you want and we’re supposed to take it. Not in this lifetime.
Aside from you, it is apparent that nationwide, we all just cannot get along. Let’s be adults and just admit it. So would it not make more sense for everyone’s well being to separate based on cultural or whatever lines we choose?
You may be a fine person aside from your residence. This is my home. And rest assured that there are numbers growing by the day here that are itching to tell Northerners very plainly: You’re not welcome here.
Virginia Secessionist,
I will by no means interfere with the Ohio visitor. But honestly, this is getting to the point that I am contemplating becoming an expat in a couple of years. My wife is from Georgia. She hates it here because of the northern migration. I spend quite a bit of time in southern Virginia travelling to my land in Eastern Kentucky. I’d rather live in Beirut than live north of Richmond.
I may come across as crass. But I am only saying what thousands out there simply will not say. Northern trash….what else are we supposed to think? These people come into our state, ram their political ideology down our throats, and we’re supposed to accept this? Have you ever noticed that Southerners aren’t wearing I-77 and I-95 North out trying to get up there? There’s a reason for that.
I am a Southerner. I want what is best for the Southern people. And I will say I want what is best for all people. Peace and prosperity. But we simply are too different. They have their homes up there. Well, maybe Detroit is an exception.
Just know that when I read that today, it struck a nerve. Kind of like realizing your house had been broken in to.
Take care.
Dixiegirl,
The tobacco industry is gone here. I enjoyed your posts. Both of my parents retired from RJ Reynolds. In 2014, the last RJ Reynolds plant north of Winston-Salem will close. That’s the end of it. Because they refused to unionize, British American is moving the operation overseas. About three months ago, they laid off 300 workers in a single morning. At the same time, they were bringing people in from out of state to take over management positions. I remember as a teenager working in tobacco fields. Now, many of the tobacco fields are being transformed into vineyards. It is sad.
Mr. PhDEC,
If you moved to my neck of the woods, I would never treat you like “trash” or think of you as “trash”.
Funny when reflecting on the post of my Scot/Irish, Ulster ancestors, they moved constantly, and I’m sure many of the folks here did look at them as trash (well, we know they did….). I’m also sure when the white Europeans move here, the Indians looked at many of them in the same way (And vise versa….)
I know when my father’s family moved north during the Great Depression, sadly, he had a first grade teacher that would make fun of his accent in front of the whole class. Fortunately, many folks were not like that, and welcomed my father’s family and they did very well up here (My dad’s story truly is a rags to riches tale…..)
Having said that, I’ve noticed that “the door swings both ways”. There’s good and bad in all groups, both North and South. It all boils down to the Golden Rule, how we treat each other.
Best wishes in all that you do. Again, my intention is not to offend. I guess based on past experience and drawing from the experience of others, regardless of any nations immigration policy or future immigration policy, I won’t look down my nose at others, call them names, etc.. I’ve done that in the past, and I guess I’ve decided not to anymore after doing some serious reflection, asking how I want to treat my fellow man the rest of my living and breathing days.
Again, best wishes and prayers.
Sincerely,
The “New” Silence Dogood
PhDCE,
I sympathise, nay, empathise with your position. It breaks my heart to see what the Northerners are doing to the South. And we have every reason to be angry with them: with the ones that are doing this. You object to Northern snobbery, to Yanks who come South and try to convert *our* land into *theirs.* And you have every right to object. I do, too. But not everyone who lives north of the Mason Dixon is like that.
TNSD is a good example of what I mean. He is not a pureblood Yankee, he has Southron relatives. As he indicated above, “when my father’s family moved north during the Great Depression” his roots are in the South. Just because he lives in Ohio right now, that does not make him an Anti-Southron-Lincoln-Worshiping-Enemy-Of-Dixie. In fact, he probably has more Southron heritage than I do.
I have only one ancestor known to have fought in the war, and he was a Missouri Yank. My father’s family lived in Missouri for generations. Until my father was born in Texas. And I was born in Virginia. But thanks to my father’s position as an officer in Uncle Sam’s Navy, we moved around a lot. I was blessed to spend half of my childhood either in the South (Virginia, Florida, Texas) or near enough to it (DC). I also was stuck in Rhode Island for nearly half my childhood. I went to a private college in Minnesota for four years, and still currently reside in Minnesota as a high school Latin teacher. But the fact remains I was born in the South, and raised there long enough to know that I’m a Virginian and a Southron by birth, and primarily a Scot by blood (with Dutch and Sicilian making large contributions, and smaller still are English, Irish, French, and German). Even though my only ancestor in the war wore the blue, I hold no loyalty to that side. I see the men in grey as the true heroes of that conflict. My heart and my loyalty are to my native land. But that doesn’t change the fact that I reside in Minnesota. Am I “Northern Trash?” because my time in Rhode Island and Minnesota has sadly diminished my Southern accent?
My heart beats as Southron as yours, friend. Are you angry at Northerners? Good. You have a right to be. Do you want them out of our country? Good. You have a right to. I do, too. But TNSD is *not* a Yankee, he is *not* “Northern Trash,” so please, refrain from further verbal assaults at him. He has not moved to North Carolina with the intentions of making it into New Yankeeland. And were he to move down South, he would *not* attempt to reconstruct it into the image of Ohio. TNSD is someone who respects our cause, has heritage in the South, and by no means whatsoever deserves the insult of being called “Yankee” or “Northern Trash.” Save your anger for those that deserve it.
Sincerely,
Virginian Secessionist
I emphasize with North Carolinians. My dad’s folks moved from Tennessee into Western Carolina in the 1930s. My dad joined Uncle Sam’s navy and eventually settled in Florida, but my grandparents remained in NC until their deaths. I always loved our trips to the mountains of NC. I saw my native state of Florida get taken over by Yankees, and also foreigners, and I saw the same damage in NC. Because I couldn’t take it anymore, I moved from Central Florida and settled in northern Florida, not far from the Georgia border, a much better place. My state is divided, with Southerners trying to hold on to a way of life that is being eroded by invaders.
Ronald Reagan said people voted with their feet. I get that. I used my feet not to vote, but to move towards people more like me. I wish that those who want to move into NC, Florida, and the rest of our Southern states would stay where they are if all they want to do is change what we have! I sure as heck wouldn’t move to NYC (God forbid!) and then do my best to try to change it.
Rose
Thanks Virginian Secessionist.
PhDCE you don’t live far from me then.
“……Northern rudeness and snobbery here in North Carolina. It’s ruining our property value…..”
Somebody there told me they have Northeast Transplants on either side (one is a landlord), and as they have moved in, they have also started renting out.
Unlike Southerners who tend to be “landed,” and tied to farming, they come from cramped areas where being a “landlord” is something they often get into. The locals fix up their houses, and build, plant, and so on, so they get a nice looking neighborhood going, but the others do not (many of them have never had yards before, they hate nature and plants, and their idea of “landscaping” is mexicans planting things nobody will have to care for or about; they know nothing of local plants, charm, etc., and don’t know enough to even know that they are lacking in all that).
Actually—- the Mexicans take better care than the white yankees much of the time— maybe because they work in landscaping and get plants and know-how that way— but they and the local whites in trailors also decorate in a comparatively tasteful way. You’d think the yankees would notice that about themselves.
Another thing is so many are tied to the military—- they are a transient lot. They do not dream of real communities. They follow orders, take the check— and buy a motorcycle or boat or something that lets them “feel free.” That kind of thing.
Southerners should make more allies with “flyover country” and the rural mid-west, who have much in common with them, in terms of roots and longevity in the country, and often ethno-religious backgrounds.
Oh— lol, the point was that the person was telling me the values had really gone down. The northeast people used the “housing crisis” to become slum lords, just like in the lovely cities they came from. The influx in NC —just due to the sheer seeming numbers where towns doubled in population in under five years, which seems impossible, but it happened—is really something.
That kind of “demographic shift” is policy driven and Genocide. Wiping out a cash crop of a people is under the genocide laws I think
Ya’ll need to distinguish between being a Northerner and being a yankee. There is a difference. One is an insult while the other is not. As I child I heard it called, “Yankee Trash”, not Northern trash. I now know why. It’s the same with scalawags and copperheads. As I’ve said so many times, it’s a matter of one’s beliefs and faith as much as it is heritage and culture. That is because you can’t have one set without having the other.
I wrote a couple of replies back on yahoo concerning the article. One part I mention how my aunt in the late 1980s had mentioned that we had become strangers in our own land, and that is so very true. All my people around me feel this way to varying extents.
As for tobacco, I grew up on a tobacco farm. I barely remember as a young boy riding the mule’s back as my grand pappy and uncles plowed the tobacco. My mom and dad had worked for RJR with my mom retiring there. I also had many other family members work for RJR, American and Ligget. After graduating college and my uncle having passed away, I took over the farm and raised about 13 acres of tobacco for several years. I know first hand what the government did to the farmers in order to control the tobacco program. It was downright cruel and evil, but it was the money that talked and people will sell their souls for enough money. I talked against the government programs, but it was like talking to a brick wall.
The way I see things now, it doesn’t matter if you run away or not. Things are gonna soon fall apart, the government either becoming an absolute tyrant or we shall see the breakup of the country and civil war erupt from it. Either way there will be problems. Which will be the worse road, I do not know… But things are not gonna remain the same.
Michael– Deo Vindicabamur