The best analogy I can explain as to why the CSA factors into Dixie identity is, humorously enough, the Hawk Tuah Girl. Let me explain.

I am a Dixie, ethnically and culturally. I am from the same culture as the Hawk Tuah Girl, probably the same ancestrally ethnic origin, with a very, very similar accent, and in terms of pronunciation, I am a general linguistic match. To me, the Hawk Tuah Girl is not just the worst possible image my people can portray, but moreso, her fame and elevation to celebrity status is a microcosm of what the Mono-Culture that is emanating from California wants to do to every other unique culture, quirk, and group.

People like Electrochemical Alchemist pretend to like Dixies, our culture, etc., the way we talk, and so on and so forth. However, the moment we do something that isn't in pure conformation with the Yankee-Californification Media Complex (like, say, use CSA paraphenalia or adhere to a different moral standard), we are subject to iconoclasm and actions against our monuments and identity. That is to say, once we rebel against the Complex, if we DARE assert ourselves as something different, they will come for us.

The Hawk Tuah Girl is a perfect encapsulation of what the Yankee wants us Dixies to be: goofy, quirkly little people with charming tics and habits, but at the end of the day, we lay down at night being as spiritually and morally dead as the Yankee. Godless sex addicts, laughing about sodomy and acting in no way different than their masters.

They've been trying to do it to us for one hundred sixty years now. They won, and the rest of the world is next. Yankee accents and regional Yankee identities are starting to be torn too. One day, we will all be culture-less, cosmopolitan Californicators.

You can see the Yankee mentality to the Dixies every day, but the Hawk Tuah Girl and the way celebrities and elites treated us (leading to the election of Trump) are basically that era repackaged for a modern time.

The very nature of the Yankee response to the CSA exercising its absolute right to secede was an abomination. The role slavery played in the issue is completely irrelevant to the fact that if one grows tired of his government, it is his right, privilege, and obligation to abolish it and replace it with something of his own making, for his own needs. There is nothing in the Constitution that says those reasons cannot include the right of the rich to be lazy, but only people with an axe to grind and whose knowledge of the war extends to Googling and a few "Salon" articles that repeat "BUT MUH CORNERSTONE SPEECH" on loop care enough to read anything else into it.

The Yankees ABSOLUTELY LOATHE our morals and want us to become like the Hawk Tuah Girl. Any form of unique identity or self-worth leads naturally to the resentment of them. All we are to them is a quirky thrall; our purpose is to labor and be lectured by the university professor, the race pimp, and the celebrity about how racist and stupid we are, while they commit iconoclasm against our symbols and erode any cultural or social distinction.

Electrochemical Alchemist demonstrates the mentality the Yankees have had at us for one hundred sixty years. He immediately took the mask off the moment I didn't start self-flaggelating for the sins of my forefathers and apologizing for my people exercising an inalienable right of self-determination.

Slavery was on its death throes from the start, and it would have ended by the 1880's AD, either because the CSA honored its last-ditch plea with the UK to phase it out over a quarter-century, or because the UK invaded and freed them by force. I could argue that for a long time, but the Planters made clear in their writings that a free CSA would see massive taxpayer investment in agricultural science and mechanization, which would have ironically destroyed the very slave system they wanted to keep.

The Yankee rulers NEVER cared about slavery. That was propaganda to trick the Europeans into not intervening, and was a cynical farce that people like Electrochemical Alchemist eats up because he couldn't stomach the truth: that the North so hated the idea of American federalism and the idea of someone not living according to their dictates that they would functionally render the Tenth Amendment extinct, convert "the United States ARE" to "the United States IS," and set the stage for the erosion of all freemen's distinctions, black and white.

The purpose of the Civil War, from the North's side, was to subjugate and control what they deemed to be an inferior society. The only thing in the South that they wanted was our ports and our cotton; even though New York contributed more to the export coffers on paper, it was the Southland that bore the brunt. The Yankees treated blacks almost as bad as we did, but didn't even go so far as to feed them between beatings. Plus, their treatment of non-black races was worse than ours, given that our All-Mexico Movement kissed the ground of the Spaniard-Mestizo Hispanic caste system (they too hated blacks) and we pledged our full-throated allegiance to the Indian Nations. Unlike the North, wen ever once broke a treaty with the American Indian.

If you want to talk about the parasitical nature of the Planter and his growing fat off of men as chattel, I would direct you to the next rung of the Yankee conquest of federalism: the abomination that was Civil Service Reform, and the elimination of the ability of the executive to actually influence the ever-biased, ever Yankee civil service.


Consider the Yankee parasite versus the Dixie parasite, the former of whom has not changed in a century:

The Yankee parasite is the entrenched federal bureaucrat, unconstitutionally shielded from being fired by the executive due to the end of the Spoils System, given his own fief to oppress and hurt, with a haughty mindset that only a tainted "education" in an echo chamber can bring. He has never done anything good for society. He has never worked a real job in his life. He probably went to college and then graduated straight into the civil service. He has strangled the entrepenuer, tormented the capitalist, and lectured the poor man about how he's here to help, and how the world cannot function without him. This parasite predates Roosevelt and his collective hive marks the Yankee Leviathan.

The Planter, abominable as slavery is, has some beauty in spite of it. Focusing on aspects outside of slavery, one can see how he reflects a superior* way of life, mirrored out of the best of etiquette, art*, splendor, and good behavior*. He attempted to recreate the cavalier aristocracy of the United Kingdom, but replaced free Englishmen with chattel, to his soul-rotting detriment. (After all, the English aristocracy was fanatically, and rightfully, anti-slavery.)

Nonetheless, the Planter at his worst was a better*, wiser*, and more honorable steward of government . Notice, I said of the government, not that he was a moral human being. The Planter was naturally and inherently invested in decentralization, for he could not exist in the presence of a strong, centralized government. His hands-off governance was, if you were not a slave, as close to libertarianism* as an oligarchy could spawn*. The Planter focused entirely on oppressing one, and only one, tiny minority in his nation.

I would even go so far to say the Planter was better than the Yankee in his time, for the Planter never once sought to impose his way of life on the North. The CSA was never going to conquer the Union. He was not going to make them legalize slavery in New York or California.

Arguments that the Fugitive Slave Act was an imposition of South on North, evil as that act was, is false. The Full Faith and Credit of the Southern States entitled them to the right of extradition and, unfortunately, an escaped slave is a wanted fugitive who has committed a crime in the Southland. The United States is supposed to be an equal federation of semi-sovereign states, but the Yankees didn't want to play that game, and so, in their hubris, negated their part of the deal to deny extradition. The Fugitive Slave Act was passed to hinder the arrogance of the Yankee administrations who refused to enforce the extradition laws equally and fairly. It was just one example of a lifelong pattern.

Were the Yankees morally right to not aid them? Of course they were.

However, we are not making emotional arguments here. The fact is that the Yankees did not want to play fair or equal with the Southland, and their chauvanistic superiority complex was a far greater problem to the Southland than their nominal opposition to the slave labor that made them rich and subsidized their industries. Indeed, they horded tax revenue to subsidize their industry at the expense of Southern development. Much like all of New York State exists solely for enriching New York City, so too was the American export structure. On paper, New York City paid the most export tariffs, far more than the Southland, but New York City also got back all of that and more in industrial subsidies. We did not.

That's not an equal federation of semi-sovereign states. That's the dominance of one region over the other. That dominance didn't stop at them pretending to care about slavery. It was baked into their very being.

Everything about the Union was a facade that hid their real, hateful intents. Their crocodile tears for the slaves were dried with linen cloths of Southern cotton. Their supposed moral standing was demonstrated fake by the original idea the Radical Republicans had, to do to the Dixies what they did to the Indians, though, fortunately, cooler heads prevailed.

What the Union wanted was our ports and our labor. Nothing else. There was no altruism, no kindness, no love for the slave involved. It was a cold, calculated farce wioth the dual motives of getting rich and putting an inferior people in their place.

Everything the Union did was to advance the Union. It had no altruism, no benevolence, and certainly no regards for the slave. The Union, the very Lincoln administration itself, was a boiling tempest of hatred for American federalism, for the Constitution, and for what was supposed to be their fellow American. That hatred is what creates pencil-necked elitists like Elctrochemical Alchemist and Ivy League graduates. They see us as beneath them, as unruly thralls to be controlled. We are to the Yankee elitist nothing but tools for his amusement and enrichment, for us to consume his wares and copy his norms.

My advocacy for the CSA is not because I wash the Planters' hands of the abomination of slavery. I know the role chattel slavery played and there was nothing good or righteous about owning another human being as property. I do not defend or argue that slavery was good, as slavery is incapable of being done without sinning, and its abolition was a happy casualty of the Civil War.

No, as I said at the beginning, my identification with the CSA isn't just for a historical nation, but for a very idea, the very state of being in rebellion against the Yankee mentality . The Union would delight for every Dixie to be as malleable, weak, and controllable as the Hawk Tuah Girl. They have tried this for one hundred sixty years.

I have no sympathy for slavery. Nat Turner and John Brown did nothing wrong... but Lincoln? He did everything wrong.

In using CSA symbols, I stand for the idea that the Dixie is to be something the Yankee is not. I stand in defiance to the hubris, the arrogance, the chauvinism of the Yankee, who never cared to consider that some people might have a diametrically opposed, unique world view.

Everything the Union did, every act Lincoln authorized, was for removing not just rebelling oligarchs, but for the very idea that anyone should dare challenge their dominance and their supposed "morals." Their victory in the Civil War was an utter disaster for federalism, for the Southland, and, ultimately, for the human race.

Did it ever occur to you that there might be more to it than simply slavery? I am a rebel to an idea, to a very state of being, a rebel to a cruel and Godless taskmaster. My flying of Confederate paraphenalia is an act of defiance, a stand against the Union's way of life and the corruption it created.

It's not a story Lincoln would ever want you to know.






* = Unless you're black, just ask Whipped Peter. I will afford no defense of the institution of slavery, and the banality of evil committed against the slave is overwhelmingly proven.