The latest video in our ‘Yes’ campaign for Southern independence is a little different from the previous videos in that it features a non-Southerner discussing some differences between the South and his own New York and concluding that the South should be independent. In fact, the unnamed man in the video explains that his...
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‘They’ll change the face of paradise, and complain it’s not the same. Then they’ll move on down our coastline to find new dunes to stain.’
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Wisconsin politician and newly selected Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan was in The Villages yesterday to speak to the thousands of Northern retirees who live in the massive central Florida community. The Republican candidate reassured these aged Yankees that Mitt Romney and he would prevent any cuts to their favourite government programs. Chris...
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Someone recently commented on an SNN video in a rather typical manner which surely every Southerner alive has heard. He wrote: I like the south… but wish they would get over the civil war and move on. Why’s there a derogatory word for northerners still used to this day? Seems cheesy. I responded...
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National Public Radio has been running a series on the American Dream, its origins and declining public belief in what reporter and host Ari Shapiro describes as ‘a crucial thread in this country’s tapestry.’ The term for this vision of the future as always being more prosperous and brighter than the present (another fine...
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Jeff Haynes reports for RT on a developing situation in Tampa, Florida – a heavily over-run area of the Sunshine state – where the outsiders and anti-Southern elements who govern the city are pushing an anti-gun rights agenda: The City Council of Tampa, Florida is asking Republican Governor Rick Scott to issue an executive...
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Northern moralists have always been exceedingly susceptible to social fads. Perhaps due to their Puritan roots, their propensity towards taking up moral crusades has long been recognised by non-Yankees as one of the defining features of Northern culture. Southern author and linguist MacDonald King Aston wrote about this strange crusading culture at length in his book...
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Linguist and historian MacDonald King Aston (who has appeared on the SNN podcast) traces the ideas of the 1960s, a decade which he calls the ‘Evil Twin’ of the 1860s, on pages 183-185 of his book Yankee Babylon. Specifically, he looks at the presumed ‘revolutionary’ concepts of the New Left and concludes that they...
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One way of looking at the conflict of the 1860s is to see the two sides as representing completely different models of civilisation (as we have discussed many times on SNN) and the war of 1861-65 as a continuation of the English Civil War of 1642-51. In fact, the struggle goes back to before...
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Michael Lind had an interesting article for Salon about twelve years ago about politics in the United States. He basically makes the Southern nationalist case for us that we are a distinct people always at odds with the prevailing Northern culture and politics. Undoubtedly, things will go on this way until we are either...
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In December of 1862 President Jefferson Davis spoke to the Mississippi legislature in Jackson. The United States’ war against the South was in full swing and clearly horrified President Davis in its scope and savagery. He referred to the Union forces as ‘worse than vandal hordes’ and was appalled by their criminal behaviour towards...
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An SNN reader from occupied-Florida sent in the below note and pictures, demonstrating the way in which Yankees have colonised his local area (sadly, they are no longer confined to urban centres but are ‘developing’ out into the country). Notice how they have named this fully Yankee neighbourhood ‘Bull Run’ (the Southern name for...
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