The South is the essence of what makes America unique and original. Everything from Nascar to Barbeque can trace its
origins back to the South. The South is under attack because it is the last region of the nation to
resist being homogenized into people who think
alike, sound alike, vote alike, buy alike. Nothing angers politicians,
marketers, pollsters, and the politically correct crowd more than a
group of people who absolutely refuse to get into line.
While the South has always been rebellious, these days it’s become a
cultural battlefield where the whole concept of southern history is
under attack. Displaying the Confederate battle flag, preserving
Confederate statues on public and private property, even singing the
song Dixie are under fire as "divisive," "racist," "hate-filled,"
"bigoted," and every other PC description imaginable.
Southern culture is one where you know and help your neighbors and take
care of your family without asking the government to do it for you. It’s
still a place where people believe in friendliness and good manners.
Southerners still believe in God and his role in their lives. Southerners have more in common with each other than we have with
natives of other regions. What unites us is a common sense of place — an
understanding that the soil under our feet was cultivated by our
ancestors and kept strong by our heritage. Southerners will still do
anything to help a friend. Southerners have no pretenses about
themselves. And there is no more broad dividing
line than grits, sweet tea and barbecue.
The South is not the dark, dangerous, uneducated, backwards place
that the media & left wingers and movies make it out to be. Not
only is the South the nation’s cultural center, but it is the
friendliest place to live too. That’s one of the main reasons its
population is growing and its economy is booming. If you are from the South, fight the myths and fight the politically
correct crowd who wants to destroy the memory of the Old South and make
your region into something that it is not and never has been. Southern
history and Confederate history is something that should be studied not
erased. People in the South are fiercely proud of where they come from.
Obliterating southern history means we lose the lessons we learned from
its triumphs, and failures.
