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@MargoinWNC Hi Margo, that was intended much more for Victor than for you as he introduced West Virginia to the thread.

I concentrate on WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA, EAST TENNESSEE AND NORTH GEORGIA, hence the reference source material

@Lorelei1861 @VictorWhitlock5 @MargoinWNC As Thaddeus Stevens of PA, no fan of Southern secession, said "We may admit West Virginia as a new state, not by virtue of any provision of the constitution, but under an absolute power which the laws of war give us." So, WV was added unconstitutionally in 1863 as a SLAVE STATE.

@VictorWhitlock5 @MargoinWNC West Virginia was a slave state. You know this, right?

This isn't a political post. It's a history post. Yu took it there.

Unfortunately when you launch attacks on other people you need a good excuse for why you did it - otherwise it makes you look bad in the eyes of the world. That's how it came to be that the Union invented the Righteous Cause Myth about invading the South "to free the slaves".

Trump shuts down USAID and suddenly the Democratic Party is broke 🤔

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@chrishume_ @mostainback @ColJosephHardin @Across_Dixie Oh the perspicacity, by Michael Stainback

@mostainback @ColJosephHardin @Across_Dixie oh the irony

Is there a weird generational bitterness in the South about losing the war that I don’t know about?

@Lorelei1861 @chrishume_ @Eggs_and_Jakey @Zoomer_South @Liberty_Xtreme @dixie_cavalier @ModernCSA @Jeff_Davis1808 "Generational bitterness" should be expected — Demographic analyses on the South's white men suggest that between 20% and 30% of them aged 15 to 34 perished during the conflict. Similarly, approximately 23% of Southern men died who were between the ages of 20 and 24 in 1860.

We’re not “dying out” by any stretch of the imagination. We’re not going to put up with you animals denigrating our ancestors and heritage anymore. Gen Z is on fire for the Confederacy as well @Zoomer_South @Liberty_Xtreme @dixie_cavalier @ModernCSA @Jeff_Davis1808 @Irvin_John_CSA @jjfThompson @CountryBoy_62 @csa_appreciator @DoctorCopper @GeorgeDAndrews2 @cwipaulk @HKEdgerton @WanjiruNjoya

DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE PRESS SAYS. I was a partner in a tree farm in Apopka, Florida in the summer of 1988. My partner Rich Klinka taught me something out in that field that I have never forgotten. Trees need the wind. Without wind resistance, a tree will not grow in caliper. Girth. A sheltered tree grows tall and thin and weak. But a tree that has been pushed, that has had to dig in and resist, builds strength from the inside out. You cannot manufacture it. You cannot rush it. The wind is not the enemy. The wind is what makes the tree worth planting. When I look at who we are as Confederate descendants, CSA-Americans, I see nothing but caliper. Our ancestors stood into the hardest wind this continent had ever produced. Outnumbered. Outgunned. And when it was over, they did not disappear. They buried their dead, went home, and built something from the rubble. They passed it down. Through Reconstruction and ridicule and revision. Through a century of being called villains. Through monuments torn down in the dark of night. Through textbooks rewritten by people who were never going to tell our story honestly. Every generation of CSA-Americans has taken the wind full in the face. And here we are. Still standing. Still in the field. The strongest we have ever been. Because the wind made us. And we are now standing on the verge of the most important Confederate legislation in the history of this country. The H.K. Edgerton Equal Protection Initiative. Federal recognition. Legal protection. Built on the Civil Rights Act, national origin, the First Amendment, the prohibition against bills of attainder. The most powerful tools in American law, pointed in our direction for the first time. Ever. I know what some of you are thinking. Trump. Iran. Gas prices. A housing market locked against an entire generation of Americans. There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical. I have blinders on. I will use every law, every act, every available tool. We play the hand we are dealt. I care about our Southern people. That is my field. H.K. Edgerton was the North Carolina President of the NAACP. He walked hundreds of miles carrying the Confederate battle flag because he understood that the erasure of one people's history is a warning to every people. After 166 years of wind, the time is now. Today is Memorial Day. We remember men who were cold and hungry and outnumbered, who fought anyway. They are not asking us for speeches. They are asking us to stay in the field. Our caliper, built by 166 years of wind, demands that we fulfill what they planted. We will not let them down. Read the full essay here: open.substack.com/pub/mespo2006/…

June 16, 2024. Texas. A 12-year-old girl is alive in the morning. By the next morning, she is dead in a creek. A woman on her way to work finds her. Under a bridge. Her hands tied. Her feet tied. She had been strangled. She was twelve. Two men had taken her under that bridge. Both were grown men. Both were from another country. And here is the part this country could not forgive. Neither one of them was supposed to be here. One crossed the border illegally. Border Patrol caught him. Released him the same day. The other crossed the border illegally. Border Patrol caught him too. Released him too. Caught. And released. Caught. And released. It gets worse. One of the two men was wearing a government ankle monitor the night she died. A GPS tracker. On his leg. The government could see exactly where he was. And a 12-year-old girl died anyway. After she was killed, the court set their bond. Ten million dollars. Each. Ten. Million. Dollars. That is the number the system reached for after she was already gone. Not before. After. Her mother could have disappeared into her grief. No one on earth would have blamed her. Instead she walked into the United States Congress and sat down in front of lawmakers. A mother. Testifying about her murdered daughter. So that the next little girl might live. They wrote a bill. It would force the government to actually hold people instead of releasing them with a tracker and a court date. It was introduced in 2024. It died. It was introduced again in 2025. It is still sitting in committee. It has not passed. Read that again. It has not passed. She should be starting high school this year. She should be arguing with her mom about her phone. She should be alive. A border that did its job would have saved her. Two men were caught. Two men were released. One of them was wearing a government tracker. And a 12-year-old girl paid for all of it. She was twelve years old. Don't let this country forget what happened to her. And God bless every parent still fighting to make sure it never happens again.

Keep this for when some commie yankee tells you they fought to “free the slaves”

Memorial Day’s origins began when Southern widows began the tradition of decorating soldiers’ graves after the Civil War. Memorial Day as a national holiday was formally recognised by both Northern & Southern vets in 1868.

Barbara Walters once wrote that many Americans have forgotten — and many others were never taught — how Jane Fonda’s actions during the Vietnam War were viewed by countless POWs and veterans. One of the most widely repeated accounts comes from Air Force pilot Jerry Driscoll, a POW held in the “Hanoi Hilton.” According to the story, he was cleaned up and forced to appear before Jane Fonda during her visit to North Vietnam. When ordered to praise his captors’ “humane treatment,” he instead spat at her. He was reportedly beaten severely afterward, suffering injuries that permanently affected his vision and ended his flying career. Another former POW, Colonel Larry Carrigan, described how prisoners secretly passed Jane Fonda slips of paper containing their Social Security numbers in hopes of proving to the world they were alive. The story claims she later handed those papers over to North Vietnamese officers, resulting in brutal beatings for the men involved. Carrigan survived. Others allegedly did not. Former civilian adviser Michael Benge, who was imprisoned for more than five years, also spoke publicly about his experience. He said he agreed to meet with Fonda because he wanted to tell her the truth about the treatment POWs endured — not the “humane and lenient” image being presented for propaganda purposes. According to Benge, he was severely punished before any meeting could happen. For many veterans and military families, Jane Fonda’s 1972 trip to Hanoi became a symbol of betrayal during a painful chapter in American history. While supporters viewed her as an antiwar activist protesting U.S. policy, critics believed her actions crossed the line into giving aid and comfort to America’s enemy during wartime. Decades later, the anger and controversy surrounding “Hanoi Jane” still remain powerful for many who served, suffered, or lost loved ones during the Vietnam War. Whatever one’s political views may be, the experiences of POWs and veterans deserve to be remembered and treated with respect.

University-educated liberals will see a video like this and be like, "Wow, such a vibrant culture. We should import ten million of these people right now. Imagine the street food!"

After reading dozens of comments on my posts asking why I believe CBS didn't choose to run a feel-good story on hurricane Helene, and chose to do a smear, I decided to answer that question... #60minutes #wncstrong #HurricaneHelene

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High-trust societies cannot survive uncontrolled immigration

Across the South today, Confederate flags were placed on graves ahead of Memorial Day Services tomorrow. These young ladies helped their family in Fredericksburg, Virginia. It is a Southern tradition, and we are so glad to see it continued today. Teach our children to be unashamed of their heritage. Teach them to respect and honor our Confederate dead. #LestWeForget

Morris Talapar, in The Sociology of Colonial Virginia, on the aristocratic myths, origins, and pretensions of the Virginia ruling elite: "The members of colonial Virginia's ruling class considered themselves aristocrats—they claimed descent from the English aristocracy, which they used as a model in organizing their own class. "It appears that their genealogical claims were largely valid: the great majority of them were evidently collateral descendants of members of the English lower gentry; a few were lineal descendants, while some were no doubt of commoner origin who had bought their way to social recognition. "The position of the lower gentry in England was none too exalted, although in colonial America such descent meant a good deal."

An oft-forgotten detail from the history of America is that the New England merchants were much engaged in the slave trade their descendants damned, leading to acerbic remarks on the matter from the South. "[Byrd's] sense of decency was also outraged by the sanctimonious piety of the New England traders who brought in enough of both rum and slaves to be the ruin of the country. When Oglethorpe prohibited rum and slavery in Georgia, Byrd expressed his approval. Writing to his friend Lord Egmont, one of Oglethorpe's partners, Byrd observes that Georgia will have much ado to keep out negroes and rum, for "the saints of New England, I fear, will find out some trick to evade your act of Parliament." Louis B Wright notes in The First Gentlemen of Virginia

Not many people know about the head of the USSR's secret police under Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria One of the most brutal men in history, he ordered massacres of Poles, torture of dissdents, and millions of murders of Christians Beria was known to drive around Moscow and point at women and young girls on the street. They were then brought to him by his secret police to be raped, no matter their ages. This even included famous actresses. If they refused, they were tortured in his basement After Stalin's death, Beria was arrested by Marshall Zhukov and executed as Khrushchev took power After the fall of the USSR, workers discovered skeletons of young girls in his backyard that had been buried naked, their bodies doused with chemicals. This discovery included the skulls of children