Save your Dixie cups, the South shall rise again!

[Nihilianth]

Doesn't the right talk about a limited government (weaker central government)? Hmmmm.

Yes. But then they want government to be there to tell you who is available to be married, and how you use a bathroom.....ironic, really.

 

[pgwenthold]

That's something I wondered about for a long time -- when would-be Confederates say "The South will rise again!", or put it on bumper stickers, what exactly do they imagine is going to happen? What does "The South will rise again" actually mean?

Yeah, I wonder the same thing. Wait, the South will "rise again"? You mean back up to that level where it was full of slaves? Or where it did a treasonous secession from the United States?

Rise up again to WHAT?

That people from the south consider the pre-civil war south to be a desirable state shows how they just don't get it. Those aren't endearing features that one should be aspiring toward.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Chances the South would "Rise Again" after Reconstruction: Zero. It never happened.

Although, it could happen in the future. I know it' all political bluster ********, but Teas periodically talks about secession. Until they realize just how much they get back from the federal government to support things like their roads and schools.... lol.

The Instant Third World Nation Movement never quite dies out.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yeah, I wonder the same thing. Wait, the South will "rise again"? You mean back up to that level where it was full of slaves? Or where it did a treasonous secession from the United States?

Rise up again to WHAT?

That people from the south consider the pre-civil war south to be a desirable state shows how they just don't get it. Those aren't endearing features that one should be aspiring toward.

I mentioned earlier that "rise" means "rise in rebellion". It's 19thspeak.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I mentioned earlier that "rise" means "rise in rebellion". It's 19thspeak.

Are you absolutely sure it's not a reference to boners? Because it's hard not to come to that conclusion.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Are you absolutely sure it's not a reference to boners? Because it's hard not to come to that conclusion.

"come"

 

[This is The End]

George W. Bush would have been an awesome Confederacy President.

 

[TragicMonkey]

George W. Bush would have been an awesome Confederacy President.

Indeed, the Union would have loved that.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Indeed, the Union would have loved that.

But poor Mexico!

 

[pgwenthold]

I mentioned earlier that "rise" means "rise in rebellion". It's 19thspeak.

Yeah, so the plan is to secede again and start another civil war? Is that that old "proud southern heritage" we hear about all the time? Treason?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yeah, so the plan is to secede again and start another civil war? Is that that old "proud southern heritage" we hear about all the time? Treason?

Quite so. Not many sane people take the idea seriously, but it floats around on the edges and never completely goes away.

 

[catsmate]

This article, and the book it reviews, may be of interest.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This article, and the book it reviews, may be of interest.

Ah, the reDestruction.

 

[Republicus]

Yeah, I wonder the same thing. Wait, the South will "rise again"? You mean back up to that level where it was full of slaves? Or where it did a treasonous secession from the United States?

Rise up again to WHAT?

That people from the south consider the pre-civil war south to be a desirable state shows how they just don't get it. Those aren't endearing features that one should be aspiring toward.

This is not a majority opinion in the south. "Would be confederates" are a dwindling, now almost non-existent group. I've never seen more US flags flown than in Nashville's neighborhoods, and that's including the military bases I've lived on.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And the lack of interest in a "resurgent South" is an endless of amusement for me. My cousins are so frustrated.

"If they'd just WAKE UP we could get something going!"

"Cuz, you can't even get a lawn mowing business going."

 

[quadraginta]

[OT] In my ^eWhoniverse alt-hist after the USA fragmented in the 1930s (not a nice time, Big Slump, Okie flu, far worse dustbowl and more) the Canada/New England/California axis basically dominated North America for decades after the Eastern War and the suppression of the New Confederacy.
Canada picked up a few bits of the USA (like Alaska) but lost got rid of Quebec.
[/OT]

FTFY

 

[catsmate]

FTFY

Either way Greater Canada ended up dominating North America while Quebec was a backwater.

 

[Nihilianth]

This is not a majority opinion in the south. "Would be confederates" are a dwindling, now almost non-existent group. I've never seen more US flags flown than in Nashville's neighborhoods, and that's including the military bases I've lived on.

Military bases? A military base seriously used to fly a flag other than the flag of the United States of America!? I mean, I can see a state flag being flown in a military base, so long as it's flying lower than the national flag. I would think that a military base commander that allows a Confederate flag to be flown on his base, to be treasonous.

And the lack of interest in a "resurgent South" is an endless of amusement for me. My cousins are so frustrated.

"If they'd just WAKE UP we could get something going!"

"Cuz, you can't even get a lawn mowing business going."

"The sheeple must WAKE UP!"

What a stereotype!

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Military bases? A military base seriously used to fly a flag other than the flag of the United States of America!? I mean, I can see a state flag being flown in a military base, so long as it's flying lower than the national flag. I would think that a military base commander that allows a Confederate flag to be flown on his base, to be treasonous.

He did say "US flags".

 

[Nihilianth]

He did say "US flags".

Well, he did first say that "would be confederates are dwindling," (I know how much such traitors love to fly their confederate flags.)Then the next sentence, he described how there are more American flags flying in Nashville and military bases. So I assumed that Confederate flags were dwindling, along with the Confederate movement. And that includes military bases.