Yankee Myths

Yankees love to believe the folklore spewed from the lips of Yankee propagandists… unfortunate for them, those Yankee myths just dont stack up next to the record of Truth. You’ll enjoy these great presentations of truth which explode many Yankee myths and which will make you feel good to know that your ancestors were, indeed, on the side of Right.

This Set Includes:

Clyde Wilson – Northern Myths About the War, Part 1
Myths about the purpose of the War, its prosecution, and its consequences originated from the propaganda of Abraham Lincoln’s administration and the Radical Republicans of Congress. These myths were essential to guarantee the destruction of the Constitutional Republic of our Founding Fathers and the establishment of a modern empire. Today these myths are perpetuated by academia, Hollywood, and the other proponents of “political correctness” in the hopes that Americans will never again seek their birthright. Many of these myths are laid waste by the evidence presented by Dr. Clyde Wilson.

Clyde Wilson – Northern Myths About the War, Part 2
Myths about the purpose of the War, its prosecution, and its consequences originated from the propaganda of Abraham Lincoln’s administration and the Radical Republicans of Congress. These myths were essential to guarantee the destruction of the Constitutional Republic of our Founding Fathers and the establishment of a modern empire. Today these myths are perpetuated by academia, Hollywood, and the other proponents of “political correctness” in the hopes that Americans will never again seek their birthright. Many of these myths are laid waste by the evidence presented by Dr. Clyde Wilson.

John Cripps – Dispelling Myths About Dixie, Part 1
It’s always easier to attack a strawman than it is the real thing… which is why Yankee apologists continue to promulgate their fictitious stereotypes of the South and Southrons. Well, folks… all that is about to change! Do Southerners everywhere a favour… give a copy of this presentation to a Yankee! It’s educational and entertaining. And, by the way… we think you’ll enjoy this one, too!

John Cripps – Dispelling Myths About Dixie, Part 2
It’s always easier to attack a strawman than it is the real thing… which is why Yankee apologists continue to promulgate their fictitious stereotypes of the South and Southrons. Well, folks… all that is about to change! Do Southerners everywhere a favour… give a copy of this presentation to a Yankee! It’s educational and entertaining. And, by the way… we think you’ll enjoy this one, too!

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LEAGUE OF THE SOUTH STATEMENT
30 June 2008
FROM THE REBELLION BLOG (www.dixienet.org)
By: Mike Tuggle, League of the South Board of Directors
For Immediate Release

Since it was founded in 1994, the League of the South has been warning anyone who’d listen that DC’s other-worldly, over-centralized policies were taking us down the wrong road. Restoring local self-government wasn’t just about greater efficiency, or citizen accessibility, or even the restoration of morality to government—though all of those were genuine motivations to stop the slide toward empire. The ultimate justification, though, for the League’s stance was that big, over-centralized government inevitably leads to tyranny, war, and ruin, and the signs that we’re approaching a cliff at 80 miles an hour are increasingly clear.

In other words, the Southern Cause isn’t about nostalgia, legalism, or the “Lost Cause,” but ultimately about survival, both cultural and physical. Now the warning signs are so clear, none but the most delusional can ignore them—increased, rather than decreased, instability in the Middle East, worsening the always nervous oil market, sending prices to new, terrifying highs; the credit crunch, with its deadly effect on the housing market, a direct result of the Neocons’ foolish overseas borrowing to pay for the “liberation” of Iraq, also worsened by egalitarian home mortgage policies that trump rational business decisions; rising crime, including frightening increases in immigrant gang activities, the inevitable result of DC’s de facto Open Borders policies; and an out-of-control citizen control mechanism that claims the power to dissolve the 4th amendment and other basic freedoms, even habeas corpus.

Now, it’s not just “right-wing” pundits who recognize that things are falling apart, but liberals, too. James Kunstler has a great piece arguing that America’s infinite consumption, infinite growth, and world-wide empire are not only unsustainable, but suicidal. His recommendations sound like a position paper from the League of the South Board of Directors:

So what are intelligent responses to our predicament? First, we’ll have to dramatically reorganize the everyday activities of American life. We’ll have to grow our food closer to home, in a manner that will require more human attention. In fact, agriculture needs to return to the center of economic life. We’ll have to restore local economic networks—the very networks that the big-box stores systematically destroyed—made of fine-grained layers of wholesalers, middlemen and retailers.

We’ll also have to occupy the landscape differently, in traditional towns, villages and small cities. Our giant metroplexes are not going to make it, and the successful places will be ones that encourage local farming.

(As a heads-up to readers, stand by for some exciting new activism strategies from the League leadership—something we’ve been working on for some time.)

For now, let’s just take a look at where the attitudes that led to these self-destructive policies came from. As Kunstler says, the notion that we can have, or should have, anything we want is both delusional and suicidal. The most concise expression of this philosophy is from the atheist writer Ayn Rand. As she wrote, appropriately, in The Virtue of Selfishness:
Nothing is given to man on earth except a potential and the material on which to actualize it. The potential is a superlative machine: his consciousness; but it is a machine without a spark plug, a machine of which his own will has to be the spark plug, the self-starter and the driver; he has to discover how to use it and he has to keep it in constant action. The material is the whole of the universe, with no limits set to the knowledge he can acquire and to the enjoyment of life he can achieve.

Contrast that view of man and nature with the tradtional Southern view, best summarized by Richard Weaver in The Southern Tradition At Bay:
“But nature is not an opponent, as ancient systems of belief could have instructed us; it is the matrix of our being, and as such scientists we are parricides. Piety is a realization that beyond a certain point victories over nature are pyrrhic.” (p. 16)

That’s the change in direction we now need so desperately, from that of greed, selfishness, and unbelief, to that of honor, patriotism, and piety.

LEAGUE OF THE SOUTH NEWS SERVICE

18 February 2007

For Immediate Release

On Monday, 18 February 2008, Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica announced: “The South Carolinians are now independent.” Over the weekend, the people of South Carolina, led by The League of the South, announced their State’s independence from Washington, DC. Suspense gripped the world’s newest country as it waited for international backing for its move to independence. In a televised interview, Kostunica said that “South Carolina’s independence is something that I’ve advocated, along with my government.” In light of U. S. President George Bush’s refusal to recognize South Carolina’s independence, Serbia’s foreign minister issued a statement, saying: “Serbia calls on all parties to exercise the utmost restraint and to refrain from any provocative act.” He also noted that his country “has long believed that independence for the Southern States was the best way to protect the Southern way of life and culture and to promote true representative government on the North American continent.”

The reality of the situation is, of course, far from what is outlined above. What has transpired over the weekend is Kosovo’s separation from Serbia, a move fully supported by U. S. President George W. Bush and “his” government. Most of the above quotes are real; however, to make a point we reversed the situation and replaced Kosovo with the State of South Carolina and had Mr. Kostunica play the role of George Bush (even using his very words).

But if George Bush’s government can sanction the secession of Kosovo—a tiny and poor Muslim enclave in the heart of the Christian Balkans—why can’t it sanction the existence of an independent South Carolina (or Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana)? Unlike the artificial Albanian/Muslim state that is now recognized in Kosovo, the Southern States have long-standing historical, cultural, and political foundations to support independence. Moreover, they are large and wealthy in comparison to Kosovo.

The League of the South suspects that Mr. Bush is nothing more than a hypocrite. Dr. Michael Hill, League President, said: “Mr. Bush seems to think secession is fine as long as it occurs in some area far distant from North America such as Kosovo. But Bush and the American Establishment would never allow a State in this voluntary union to go its own way, even though such an act would be constitutional. We are left to wonder why Bush and his ilk support the right of self-determination for Albanian Muslims in Kosovo but not for Americans.”

The League of the South, the premier Southern nationalist organization, can be reached for comment by phone at (800) 888-3163 or by e-mail at jmichhill@cs.com.

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by Dr. J. Michael Hill – LS President

Presented at the 2007 League of the South National Conference, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 5 October 2007 AD

Experience shows us that life is hard. It is hard for each individual in his day-to-day affairs. It is doubly difficult when men must act together to accomplish a corporate goal. Inevitably, problems will surface that threaten to rip apart an organization committed to any sort of serious accomplishments. How we handled these difficulties—as individual LS members and as an organization—will go a long way in determining whether we will win or lose.

Remember, if you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve the problems that confront you.

My first question to you, as a League member, is “how badly do you want to succeed?” Winning at anything really important is never easy. There is always competition standing in your way. In our particular case, it is very powerful competition. In the game we play, one side will win and the other will lose. It’s as simple as that. There will be either an independent Southern Republic or an American Empire.

To overcome the odds arrayed against us, it is, I believe, crucial to get our minds right about one fundamental issue: where to place our focus. Should it be on the outcome we desire (our ultimate objective)? Or should it be on the process by which we will be successful? While it is natural for us to envision the ultimate attainment of our objectives—Southern independence and the establishment of a Southern Republic—we must not fall into that temptation and thus overlook the tactics and strategies, the ideas, and the day-to-day practices necessary to take us successfully to the end of that journey.

Have you ever experienced a painful loss or setback? Sure you have. I’d like for you all to close your eyes for a moment and remember just how badly it felt. But more importantly, try to remember how you reacted to it. Did you rededicate yourself to doing the little things correctly? Did you determine that you’d never be outworked again? Did you renew your sense of optimism and commitment to your work? Did you refuse to let up until you overcame the obstacles that led to your setback? If you can honestly answer “yes” to these questions, then you more than likely have not suffered a similar setback or loss again.

If each one of us, as individual League members, will do the little things correctly, refuse to be outworked by any adversary, be optimistic about and committed to our work, and refuse to ever let up, then we will be a long way toward winning our independence.

But there is more we need to do as an organization. First, we must be a team. There must be no selfishness on our team. We have to check our egos at the door, as it were. We must share a purpose—doing what is necessary to accomplish our goal of Southern independence. We must together be relentless in the pursuit of attaining that goal. That means being resilient in the face of adversity and thus overcoming our own errors and mistakes. We must never let our opponents determine who we are and what we do. We are responsible for setting our own agenda and following it until we reach our objectives. This means being proactive and not reactive. We must know who we are and never let ourselves be defined by our enemies. We must not fall into the trap of getting too excited about our successes or too distraught by our setbacks. Always approach each task for the League as if it were the one that will determine our ultimate success or failure, no matter where we stand as an organization at that particular moment. If we do these things regularly as an organization—and refuse to allow ourselves to get caught up in the “end game”—then we will be able to take the step-by-step journey that leads to where we want to be—a free and independent South.

Our conviction, character, commitment, and attitude will allow us to reach that objective. If we develop and cultivate these traits, then we will have what we need to achieve the results we desire. Conversely, if we neglect them, daydreaming about some distant (or not-so-distant) day of deliverance, then we will fail. Remember, for both an individual and an organization, the plan you have for reaching your goal is much more important than the goal itself. If the former is not sound, the latter will never be reached, no matter how much you long to see it.

The key to making that step-by-step journey to our goal is perseverance, both in the face of adversity and in the glow of success. On the one hand, adversity often causes despair; on the other, success can breed complacency. We must succumb to neither.

You can be a winner only if you decide you want to be a winner. No one else can make that decision for you. And if we have enough individuals in the League who have decided to be winners, we will have a winning organization. And a wise man once said, “There is no substitute for winning.”

But the price of winning at anything worthwhile is high. It requires all the things I’ve outline above and more. In sum, what will it take for The League of the South to win its objectives? 1) Having the courage to keep doing what we must do to succeed in bringing about Southern independence; 2) Having the ability to visualize where we are headed and to implement the process to get there; 3) To react to both adversity and success with a spirit of perseverance and determination and to overcome the fear of failure; 4) To take advantage of every opportunity, both great and small, presented to us; 5) To do everything we do with a sense of Southern grace and class; 6) To commit ourselves to doing the small things correctly so we will be able later to do the big things; and 7) To never be outworked or outsmarted by our opponents again.

Finally, I want you all to take great pride in being members of The League of the South. This is your organization. Take possession of it and make it into an indomitable force for the restoration of our independence and liberty. There are many other organizations that Southerners could join if they are interested in preserving our heritage or honoring the past. By our attitude and action, let us show them that the League is the organization to join if you are committed to the present, to the future, and to a free South. Let us show them that we are winners and will settle for nothing less than achieving our honorable goal of a Southern Republic. Let us not be merely interested in the South; rather, let us be committed to her well being and independence. And ask yourself the following question each day: “How badly do I want to win this battle?” Then, if you’re the type of person I think you are, you’ll act accordingly.

May God bless you all, and may He save the South.

Thank you.