Cultural Genocide

Cultural genocide...That is what is going on. Not just a displeasure with a certain flag (The confederate Battle Flag) and what they perceive it to represent. This is all out war against an entire culture and what will be next....physical genocide? Because you can never truly eliminate the culture and the truth as long as there are people who can teach and tell the truth. It isn't just about a flag, now they are taking down monuments, and talking about digging up graves. Erasing from existence the sacrifices of so many for freedom from government oppression. Erasing any interest in the knowledge of the actual facts and truth. Not only are they erasing our culture from existence, they are inciting a war and a hatred like none before. I have lived in the south all my life and never seen the hatred that I now see. Signs in front of businesses inciting hate. I have even been called hateful things by complete strangers outside of stores as I walked to or from the store. Well, I won't go on and on about that...I am sure you get the picture. Things are tense. But here is my issue...if they erase all knowledge and all symbols of my heritage are they then going to erase Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks from history. Close the Museums, change the street names and remove any monument or symbol of their existence? Why is it any more fair for those to keep their place of honor(especially the tyrant King)than it is for my cultural icons to keep their place of honor. History is history and those who don't learn from it are doomed to repeat it....oh wait....they already have...Slavery....blacks today just don't realize that they traded one master for another. The federal government is a fickle entity though and when they are done using them, then where will they be. Maybe it is time to quit idolizing the tax evader King and start learning about truly great men like Booker T. Washington or George Washington Carver. Black men that truly spent their lives empowering, educating, and helping to provide the tools for true freedom to the black culture. These two men were truly two of the greatest men in the history of America and yet rarely are they spoken of. Many blacks don't even know who they are. Let's see education vs. civil disobience and the masses will choose civil disobience each and every time. Fine have your civil disobience if you must, but keep your hands off my culture. I have a right to mine as you have a right to yours and I will respect your right as long as you respect my right. Cultural genocide truly is happening and really has me concerned with where it is leading.....genocide of the people of that culture? Where will it stop...whose culture is the next to fall? Think about it folks...this is just the beginning.

Sad 4th of July

On this 4th of July I find that I am terribly saddened at the state of things. We should be celebrating freedom...a freedom won by much bloodshed and the sacrifices of many. However, we find ourselves in a land with less and less freedom. Many of us Americans are losing the freedom to celebrate our heritage. We are losing the right to fly the Confederate battle flag. It is a symbol of freedom, but because some yahoo chose to use it as a symbol of hate in his sick twisted mind the world has jumped on that bandwagon again. We have been through this before. No, it is not the only flag of the Confederacy but it is an important one. It is one that kept men alive on the battle field. Men that fought and died for freedom...not oppression. Unlike what many like to say the Civil War was about, the truth is that it was about freedom and we are still fighting for those freedoms today. The Supreme Court just this past week disregarded the Constitution of the United States to force the states to comply with a ruling that it was not granted the power to make. States Rights once again tread upon. What was fought for in 1776 was the same thing the Confederates fought for in 1856 and it is the same thing we are fighting now...a government grown too large and oppressive...the loss of true freedom. Now, that overgrown tyranny is threatening to take away and deny many Americans their heritage. While it is great and wonderful for others to celebrate their heritage, we are denied the celebration of ours. In fact, they are trying hard to wipe it completely out of existence. Our founding fathers must be turning over in their graves at the sad lot this country has become. The First Amendment officially died this past week, they are working hard on the second, and the Supreme Court once again overstepped its power and told the people of each state that their wants do not matter and they have no right to decide for themselves what is best for their state. I find this a sad 4th of July with nothing to celebrate...1776 means nothing in Amerika anymore. We should be a country in mourning...we have lost much.

Summer Heat Doldrums

It's official, I really am tired of summer (especially this summer). It has been so hot and so miserable (as many folks across the country can attest to). I do count my blessings....we have had rain, the garden has done well despite the heat, and I didn't lose any rabbits due to the heat extremes. However, here I sit at 6:25 in the evening and the heat index is 103 degrees. Who needs to go to the health club to sit in the steam room, just pull up a chair on the porch and steam away. It really is too hot for the children to get outside and spend much time. It really is so hot and humid that just a few mornings pushing past my normal come in time has me wiped out for an entire day. The other day it was cloudy and overcast with the temp hovering around 95 and not much of a heat index above that. I sat outside and commented on how nice it felt. My prayers really do go out to the folks in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and the other states are are slap burning up...literally. They are in much worse shape than we are. At least I am not having to give away my livestock because I can't feed them, or having to haul hay from other states to feed them. Most folks out there gave up on their gardens long ago and there are many that are now worried about wells drying up and not being able to water livestock. So, we do have our blessings here at Whisperwind. I am still tired of it though and don't think I will ever complain about winter again. I think we have been cooped up in the house more this summer than we ever have in the winter time. Now I know what cabin fever truly feels like to those up north. Ok, I guess I am done complaining. Time to get ready to melt and head out to feed the critters. Ya'll have a blessed night.

I Should Have Known Better (Civil War History)

I should have known better this morning than to read this ridiculous article in the Washington Post. Really I should know better than to read anything in the Washington Post, knowing that most pieces are simply opinion. I suppose I was merely intrigued that a story about the Civil War was being written in a NEWSpaper. I thought newspapers were for news that was well....new, not history. I opened it anyway. So here is my response to this non researched garbage. Mr. Loewen claims that the south was actually opposed to states' rights. Mr. Loewen could not be further from the truth. The south actually believed that piece of paper called the United States Constitution that gave them all right to govern themselves as an independent member of a constitutional republic. Oddly enough, the majority of the people of the northern states also felt that each individual state had the right to decide what to do for themselves. It was only a select few mostly northern Congressmen who felt otherwise. Sounds a little familiar doesn't it, the people strongly oppose a bailout but Congress does it anyway. They didn't listen to the people then and they aren't doing it now. Secondly, Mr. Loewen claims that the imposition of overwhelming taxes and tariffs on the southern states is a lie also. If he had bothered to do any research at all he would have seen that the southern states had a much larger export market than the north and its fledgling factories. Most tariffs and taxes were levied on exports, so who paid those high export taxes? Well, that would be those that did the most exporting, the south and the cotton industry. The Morrell Tariff was actually the straw that broke the camel's back. The south already paid 80% of the nations taxes and when time came to spend that money they were routinely outvoted in Congress in favor of northern infrastructure. Why were they outvoted? It is simple, more people in the north than south meant more representatives for the north. His third "myth" holds that even though the majority of whites in the south were too poor to own slaves, they were optimistic about one day reaching the upper eschelons of society and wanted to secure their ability to own slaves at that point. What a bunch of baloney. He also states in this area that there was such an air of white supremacy that they were afraid to go against their kind. And uses this statement "The consequence will be that our men will be all exterminated or expelled to wander as vagabonds over a hostile earth, and as for our women, their fate will be too horrible to contemplate even in fancy." by then Georgia Supreme Court Justice Henry Benning. Well, if Mr. Loewen had bothered to do any research he would understand that this statement was in response to the Haiti slave rebellions. The south was indeed looking for a way to move away from slavery because it was no longer economically viable since the invention of the cotton gin (just like we no longer use draft horses on most farms anymore). However, they realized that just turning all those people loose with no homes, no jobs, no food was not the way to go. In fact, the plantation owners in Haiti had done just that. They sent all of their slaves packing. Essentially, they threw them out of their homes (owned by the plantation), took away their food supply (again owned by the plantation) and sent them on their way. The slaves retaliated because there was no means for them to support themselves and they burned and looted the plantations and very few plantation owners escaped death. So this comment that Mr. Loewen uses out of context to try to support his feeble opinion, was actually a valid fear held by the south because it had already happened elsewhere! I will give him this, he does come slightly close to the truth with his myth #4. Lincoln didn't care about slavery nor did he care about the slaves. He actually was in favor of putting all slaves back on boats and sending them back to Africa. However, the only reason he cared about keeping the nation together was because of money. I have already explained that the north at that time simply couldn't have done without the large amount of money that it received from the taxes imposed on the south. Lincoln knew that and didn't want to lose a huge source of revenue, his main source. This brings us to his final "myth" which I have already touched on a bit. He says that even though it is impossible to disprove that slavery would have ended on its own, it is difficult to accept that it would have. Well, that is his opinion. How many things have developed and evolved in agricultural history. I am sure there was a time when farmers could not even fathom the invention of the tractor and the end of using draft horses to pull a plow. I am sure there was a day when farmers could not fathom a machine that would milk their cows for them. Large draft horses became more of an economic burden on the farmer once the tractor was invented. It would have been the same with slavery. Think about it Mr. Loewen. Slaves had to be housed, fed, clothed, medical needs attended to all year long whether there was a crop to harvest or not. With mechanized equipment that could do the work only when needed and didn't cost anything the rest of the year, slavery was not a sound business expense. Farming is a business whether you know it or not. We don't just play in the dirt for the fun of it (ok it is fun, but that is not the point). In closing I would highly suggest that Mr. Loewen do some research before he puts his opinions on paper and states them as fact. History is history, it doesn't need to be twisted into a story to suit whichever audience you want to reach. Slavery existed in the United States, get over it. There are more important things to learn from the Un-Civil War (there was nothing civil about that war) because what happened then leading up to that massacre is happening now to lead to another possible massacre and folks if we don't wake up and learn our history we will repeat it. Arizona is now fighting for its right to keep illegals out of its state. Sounds like the same states' rights that were an issue in 1861. Many states including my own, have declared Obamacare unconstitutional and sent out Declarations of Sovereignty in response to imposing a glorified tax on the people of their states. Sounds like the taxes and tariffs of the 1860s also. The American people both black and white need to get around this smoke screen and mirrors trick being imposed on them by constantly bickering over slavery. The rest of the issues are still happening right under our noses! Slavery happened, it happened here and it happened in Egypt 4000 years ago and it has happened at some point in some time throughout history around the globe. But what is happening now is that the American people are willingly taking up those chains of slavery yet again because they fail to understand the real truth of history. Mr. Loewen if you want to write about the Civil War, write about something worthwhile. Something we can learn that will help us today when we as a nation are facing the same tyranny and oppression and invasion of states' rights that only a few faced 150 years ago. I will hop down off my soap box with this quote,

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government." (The Declaration of Independence)

The men and women of the south knew this document. They believed in it and had fought for it and died for it. They believed it so deeply that they were willing to risk lives and fortunes to keep it alive. You see, they suffered just as the colonies did, in a long train of abuses of which they could do nothing about. So they set to provide new Guards for their future and their children's future. Mr. Loewen have you even read the Declaration of Independence?

Ok, I am done ranting and tirading now. I just had to get that out of my system. Blessings from the farm, Kat

New Southern history Website

A friend of mine pointed me to a relatively new website about true Southern history. Some of you might enjoy it and some of you might not. Anyway if anyone is interested in checking out The Dixie Republic and learning a few things about our history here in the South, especially stuff you never learned or never will learn from government or mainstream educators. Our great Confederate heroes knew that unless we learned our history for ourselves it would be rewritten by the victors. In the words of Major General Patrick Cleburne:

"Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late... It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision... It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties."
--- Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 1864, writing on what would happen if the Confederacy were to be defeated.

Pay close attention to his last two sentences, for that is exactly what has happened to this great nation and I believe that it has become more and more difficult to deny it. As Southerners it is our duty to study and know our true history, for it is a noble one.

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations."
--- Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.

The cause of the Confederacy was a noble cause and one that has not ceased to exist, we stand for this cause today more than ever. The only difference between now and then is that many of the states, no matter north or south east or west, now stands with us. I fear that it is now too little too late, however and that they talons of apostasy and treason have sunk in too deep for too long. I will close with the words of General Robert E. Lee:

"All that the South has ever desired was the Union as established by our forefathers should be preserved and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth."
--- General Robert E. Lee, CSA

Great Agrarian Writer-Mr. Wendell Berry

There have been many great agrarian writers throughout history; Thomas Jefferson, John Taylor of Caroline, etc. We can definitely add Mr. Wendell Berry to that list of great agrarian writers. For the next few days, Lord willing, I will add quotes from Mr. Berry to my daily quote section. Mr. Berry is one of the great voices of conservatism and the agrarian life of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is an awesome poet and author whose words hold much truth and inspiration. I highly suggest reading some of Mr. Berry's works and words. Even those not living an agrarian life have much to glean from this man of God. Here is one of his poems for your enjoyment.

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.

And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.

When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.

Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.

Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.

Listen to carrion -- put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.

Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?

Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.

As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go.

Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.

Confederate Memorial Day Today

Today was Confederate Memorial Day. I wold like to take a moment to honor all those men and women who gave all they had even their very lives for Christianity, the Confederacy, and Freedom. Their sacrifices will never be forgotten even though many generations have passed and many lies been told. May those of us that are descendants of those brave patriots never bring dishonor to their names or the cause.

Deo Vindice

Honest Abe? I don't think so!

I would like to point out an awesome sermon found at Is the Truth Really Out There blog. This sermon is by Pastor John Weaver and is an excellent expose' of the real Abraham Lincoln, not the lie taught in government schools today. The thing that gets me is that Obama is referred to as the next Lincoln. Lincoln was a poorly educated tyrant with no regards to the Constitution or the Republic. Hmmmmm...sounds familiar with our current administration. Anyway, check it out as it is definitely worth the read. God help us all!

I make no apologies

Some of my readers may not realize yet that I am unabashedly, unashamedly Southron. I am proud of my Southron heritage and ancestry. I do find it interesting these days that the things that my ancestors fought for, are now being fought for around the whole country. Our message is finally being heard, I pray it isn't too late. I would like to clear up some misconceptions that mainstream media and entertainment have put out there.

1.Just because we talk slow doesn't mean we think slow. We actually are quite intelligent down here in the south and have given the world such great thinkers as William Faulkner, Mark Twain,and others.

2. Southern women are neither weak, wimpy, nor shallow. Southern women are strong, but gracious. The women of the south have endured when no other could have. After the war and Sherman's march in which all food supplies were destroyed, the women of the south did not idly sit back and starve. They work hard to find food and simply do what needed to be done. Southern women carry their strength quietly, using it when needed while all the while remaining the gracious lady.

3. Southrons do not hate yankees or persons of color. This makes me so mad that hollywood portrays us as hating yankees or blacks. We are not a people who are prone to hate, period. We judge a person on their character, not on where they come from or what color they are. It is poorness of character and lack of manners (we call this breeding) that we hate.

4. We are Christians. True Southerners are Christians. We make no bones about it and make no apologies either. Christianity is our way of life we simply do not accept any other. Modern Christianity likes to be politically correct and say that all religions have their path to God. Bulldooey!!! Jesus said," I am the way, the truth and the light. No one comes to the Father but through Me." I believe Jesus versus some preacher trying to get more money in his coffers. We Southrons believe Jesus too, it is our way.

5. We are not all married to our cousins, at least not in modern day society anyway!

6. We live our lives by a code of honour. The same code passed down through the ages. We take a person at their word and don't expect it to be broken.

7. We wave and say hello, even to people we don't know. It is polite and hospitable.

8. We have never forgotten our cause and will never forget it. The same cause of our founding fathers, freedom and liberty.The South will rise again.

9.We believe in working had and supporting ourselves and our families. We don't believe in welfare and a free ride.

10. We believe in stopping to smell the roses. There is much enjoyment in life to be had, unless you are too busy rushing by that you miss it.

So there is so much more but that about covers the basics. We are a tough breed of people who can have a lot of fun along the path of life. God bless and take care!

Our Southron Heritage

"To you, Sons of Confederate Veterans, we will commit the vindication of the cause for which we fought. To your strength will be given the defense of the Confederate soldier's good name, the guardianship of his history, the emulation of his virtues, the perpetuation of those principles which he loved and which you love also, and those ideals which made him glorious and which you also cherish. Remember, it is your duty to see that the true history of the South is presented to future generations."
--- Lt. General Stephen Dill Lee, Commander General, United Confederate Veterans, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 25, 1906.


From the Lost Cause to the New South:
A Brief History of Southern Heritage
by K. Steven Monk
From 1861 until 1865, the Southern states of what we today call the United States of America existed as a sovereign nation known as the Confederate States of America. Because of differences in culture, economics and religion which the South felt were irreconsilable, they had seceded from their alliance with the Northern states. This was an act which, under the terms which they had ratified the Constitution, they had the right to do (they had in fact entered that union as sovereign states under contract with the other sovereign states and a federal entity known as the United States or federal government).

All would have been well and good had the federal government simply let the Southern states go their way. We had no hatred for the Northern people, we simply wanted to be left alone. But empires are not built through pacifism and so federal forces acting under the dictatorial authority of Abraham Lincoln invaded our homeland with a vehemance that was unprecedented in the history of mankind. In the single most costly war in American history brother was often times pitted against brother in a conflict that took more American lives than have all the wars that she has ever fought in combined.

Although we lost the War for Southern Independence, the cause for which we fought still lives on in the hearts of our fellow Southern patriots, or Southrons, as they are more properly termed. It will always live on so long as men desire to be free -- free to live their lives in the way they see fit without the constraints and infringments of government. Government without the consent of the people is tyranny and, as such, has no legitamacy (please refer to the quote at the top of this page entitled "Why We Fought the Civil War"). Patriots fought against tyranny in 1776 and they fought against it again in 1861. Man's desire to be free does not sleep nor will it die. It is an inalienable right granted by God and not by any governmental institution created by men.

The war ended in 1865 with the peace to which Robert E. Lee agreed, but the hostilities continue. It has been 138 years since the last shots of the War for Southern Independence were fired, but still, Yankee troops remain on our soil and their Washington based government continues to rule us with an iron hand. We are living under an occupational government. The Yankee Empire has replaced our constitutional form of government with a bureaucracy, backed by a non-elected judiciary of unprecedented power. Its open-door policy on illegal aliens is daily destroying our unique Southern culture with government-enforced multiculturism and "political correctness." This same wave of politcal correctness has incited the removal of many of our monuments and memorials from public display. The removal of still others is a constant threat. Even our cherished banners--symbols of Southern Pride--have been banned from public display and from schools in many areas of our beloved Southland. I can remember a time when the playing of "Dixie" at a school football game would bring the crowd to its feet with wildly exuberant cheers and Rebel Yells. Now it too has been banned from school grounds and alumni events, right along with prayer.

Even though we lost the War for Southern Independence, the cause for which we fought has not been lost. It still lives on in the spirit of the Southern people, of all color. This spirit, undaunted by reconstruction and guided by the hand of God, like the phoenix which rose from the ashes, will lead Southrons to build a new South that will rise in prominence among the nations of the world.

The South Must Rise Again

The South Must Rise Again is a sermon by Pator John Weaver. It is one of the best sermons I have listened to for a long time. I will summarize and then you can take a listen. It is about an hour long, but well worth the listen.

Lincoln was the first president to ignore the Constitution of the United States and to directly ignore the orders of Congress. The Civil War was Lincoln's war and he went so far as to imprison congressmen that disagreed, including those from northern states. The Confederate Union was a union of states willing to stand for Christ. This was a religious war as well as a war for liberty and freedom. The leading theologians of the time were in the South. Lincoln sought to destroy the South. He was the first president to enact executive orders. The Civil War changed our government from a Constitutional Republic to a democratic empire. The Unitarian principles that were prevalent in the north, that man needs no Savior and has the power of redemption for themselves,had invaded our churches ever since. We now see the ultra liberal school of thought that all religions have their way to heaven. This heresy proclaims that none need Jesus Christ, he is just one of many ways. The South must rise again in order to defeat this heresy and once again stand on the principle that Jesus Christ alone is the way to salvation. The south must rise again to restore the republic that we all hold so dear. Lincoln allowed and proposed the growth of our federal government and the idea that the government must take care of the people instead of the people taking care of themselves and the government. Lincoln did not preserve the union he utterly destroyed it. We now see disasters in which the people do not cry out for the help of God almighty, but instead call out for the help of the government. The people of this country have replaced God with the government. The south must rise again as what it once was, the bastion of the Biblical faith and the citadel for the Constitutional republic. There is a reason we are called the Bible belt and we must be willing to stand up and defend such an honor. This is a must listen to sermon, especially with so many states declaring sovereignty. This sermon explains the history and biblical reasons behind why we need to go through this act. May God be with us all.

The South Must Rise Again

Fundamentals of Southern Manners

There are few things more important to the Southern people than manners. Manners have always been the number one thing taught to children at a very young age. Manners are the hallmark of a civilized and moral society. I have noticed in this last generation of Southern children that this fundamental of Southernness is falling to the wayside. So in order to reclaim our Southernness and not lose who we are and what makes us who we are this is a lesson in the very basics of proper southern manners. I expect these to be displayed by my children and cringe when the children of others do not show an understanding of these things.

1. Always say please. There is no request too small or trivial to not be accompanied by the word please. Please can soften even the hardest of hearts.

2. Always say thank you. Again there is nothing done for you so small that does not merit being followed by those two simple words. Thank you.

3. When making a request of someone, ask for it instead of telling. I have heard many times recently, "You need to take me to so and so's house." That is the most uncivil way of making a request. The proper way would be " Would you please take me to so and so's house?" Which version makes you want to fulfill the request?

4. Ma'm and Sir. Ladies and gentlemen your senior should always be addressed with the proper title ma'm or sir. It is a sign of a respect and civility. It in no way ever intones servitude, simply respect and good upbringing. Those who have dropped these two little words from their vocabulary are considered arrogant, and of low class.

5.Women in the South are referred to as Ladies. All women are Ladies and we expect to be treated as such. Chivalry is not dead in the South and a gentleman would be well advised that to court a young Southern woman he must be prepared to treat her as if she were the most precious thing of the face of the earth. Ours daddy's told us we were princesses, other men must carry on that designation and that treatment because our daddy's could not have been wrong.

These are the very basics of Southern manners. Every generation of Southron has been raised with these drilled into their heads from birth. These latter generations are seeming to lose the skill of fine manners, respect, and Southern hospitality. Reclaim your heritage, your morals, and your standards instill good solid manners in your children. Your children are a direct reflection of you and who you are, don't let it be a bad reflection.

The Southern Way to Date Items

Before Noah Webster decided that everyone needed to write the same and speak the same, Southrons did things a little differently. Many Southrons are rejecting this idea of homogenisation, though. We are beginning to return to the way we have always done things which are considered proper and correct according to the Oxford English Dictionary which has been in existence a lot longer than Mr. Noah Webster. One of these things is the way we write a date. The original way to date things is with the day first, then month, then year. This is the way that Europeans still write their dates. For instance, today would be 17 December 2008 writtenly properly. We Southrons have always been proud of our heritage and proud of our dinstinctions and differences. This is just another little way that we can return to those things and celebrate being Southern.

Truth about the Confederate Flag

In today's society many people think that the Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol of hate and white supremacy. It is anything but that. This flag is a symbol of heritage, both black and white. R.J. Wilkins of Miami, Fl., a black man, stated that the flag was a testimony to men and women who would rather work hard and shed tears than take charity from the government. In other words, this flag stood for people who were willing to have a work ethic and not afraid to sweat, bleed, and cry to do an honest days work. We seem to have forgotten that these days. Americans have essentially become a shameful lazy bunch, repeatedly dependant on the Federal Government for their food and shelter. This is ridiculous! There was a time when people of all color believed in working hard, living by the grace of God, and upholding the standards and virtues that our founding fathers set before us. Children are lied to about history and Southron children are made to be ashamed of their heritage. I know I was. I was taught in school that because I was of Southron heritage that I was racist and hated black people, yet my best friend as a child was an old black woman named Lucindy. This was confusing to me because I loved Lucindy with all my heart. She was a grand kind lady who had so much knowledge to share with a precocious child who was always eager to learn. The more I grew up the more I learned and then I began learning the truth. Now as an adult, I eagerly seek the truth in all things, not just matters concerning the South. I teach my children the Truth of history not the distorted truth currently being taught in the government educational system. Now back to the battle flag of the Confederacy. It's only purpose at the time of creation was to save the lives of men both black and white who were fighting for freedom, liberty, virtue, and justice. There were many other flags of the Confederacy, but northern historians have wiped the memory of these flags out. They have distorted the real history and covered up the truth. I encourage everyone to learn the truth and these two articles: The Truth about the Confederate Battle Flag by Pastor John Weaver and Truth about Confederate Flags by Leon Puissegur. They are great places to discover some of the Truth about the Southron people and what we stand for and what we stood for then. I for one will never go back to being ashamed of who I am or my heritage. It is like my grandaddy said, there are few possesions that we can carry with us to the grave, truly the only one is the honor of our name. The honor of our name is tied to the honor of our heritage. It is who we are and runs through our blood just as surely as the oxygen needed by our body. In the words of Lewis Grizzard, "Southern born, southern bred, and by the grace of God when I die I will be southern dead." We are not racists here in the South and it is high time that we Southrons stand up for our God, our heritage, our morals, and our values. May God bless you all in your search for the Truth in all things.