James Young, in his Marse Robert: Knight of the Confederacy on the bond of feeling between the Southern Yeoman and Southern Cavalier: "The first cavaliers had been aristocrats of the blue vintage, and the South of '61 remained mediæval, dividing broadly between rich men and poor men, the knights and the villeins. Between them was the merchant class, the doctors, the dominies, measurably Scottish in origin. This social institution had the merits and the weaknesses of medieval times. There was a gulf between the man who owned a thousand acre plantation and half a thousand slaves, compared to the farmer who might own one or two slaves, a half dozen, or none whatever. Yet this gulf was not so great in fact as it looked in appearance. In this day when American classes are more strongly defined than they ever were in colonial history, it becomes difficult to make the Southern social institution a matter of easy comprehension. The South never knew the bitterness that marks industrial democracy. The farmer born to his ten acres, or to his 200, did not feel it an affront that his neighbor, a cavalier, should own a thousand. He respected his richer neighbor. There was no such impetuous striving for money and place. On the day that a plantation owner rode over his acres he would stop at the farmer's door to join him in a cold draught from the well, or a nip of last fall's brandy. He knew the farmer's wife and his children. They were very good friends. In need the rich man might befriend the poor one. Both were proud, the farmer in a stricter sense than the plantation owner, who could afford a genial liberality. Thus the farmer responded by "looking up" to this great man, with respect and some affection."

I have a very Nordic/Germanic ancestry. Anglo-Saxon Norman Dane Yet for some cause I do not attempt to larp as a natzee faggot. Now why would that be? I'm a fully enfranchised adult American and not a cosplaying child caught in a fever dream.

261 years ago today, the Stamp Act took effect. Virginia's Burgesses had already answered it: "the Taxation of the People by themselves, or by Persons chosen by themselves to represent them ... is the only Security against a burdensome Taxation"

Happy Halloween 🎃.

I'm posting the meme again.

The Flag Fad That Swept the Nation: University of Maryland Students and the Confederate Banner as Pure Americana In 1951, LIFE magazine photographed University of Maryland students proudly flying Confederate flags on campus. This captured a nationwide “flag fad” (roughly 1948–1952) that reached far beyond the South, appearing on Northern campuses, in Midwestern events, New Jersey shops, Detroit air races, New York parades, and beyond. The fad surged after World War II. Flag maker Annin & Company sold 1.6 million small Confederate flags in 1951 alone. LIFE recorded the banner on clothing, cars, and in student hands at places like Maryland. A New Jersey buyer simply told the magazine, “I’m against Truman.” Students far from the Deep South flew it because it stood for independence, courage, and resistance to overreaching central authority. For a generation that had just defeated totalitarian regimes, the flag was perfect, it represented strength of character, heritage, and a distinctly American spirit of defiance—pure Americana raised by men fighting for their homes and limited government. On campuses it served as a spirited symbol of regional pride and individual gumption. Those same qualities explain its later persistence in popular culture. Only recently have Orwellian Mao-leftists sought to strip it of those meanings and recast it solely as malice. Leftists attack the Confederate flag because it represents the courage to dissent from tyrannical dictatorships. In places like contemporary Britain or France, where even voicing an opinion can lead to prison, the parallel is clear: symbols of independent resistance are treated as threats rather than history. The University of Maryland photograph shows real Americans—North and South—still recognizing the banner as part of the nation’s authentic story, flown as an assertion that courage, self-reliance, and resistance to overbearing government remained worth celebrating. That recognition crossed state lines and oceans. -RJ

241 years ago today, James Madison laid Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom before Virginia's House of Delegates. It passed in January 1786. Its first words: "Almighty God hath created the mind free" Virginia taught the country that.

Correct, this needs to stop. Maxcy Gregg was the grandson of Johnathan Maxcy, the first president of South Carolina College (later The University of South Carolina) and the great grandson of Esek Hopkins, Commodore of the Continental Navy during the American Revolution. Gregg is a fascinating individual, and shouldn’t be reconstructed into something alien and irrelevant.

Spanberger’s “most diverse cabinet in Virginia history” photo is revealing. White men are roughly 30% of the Commonwealth. Blacks are about 20%. The image she chose to celebrate diversity shows zero white men and a heavy majority of black officials. That is not a cross-section of Virginia. It is a deliberate signal. Critics have noted the full cabinet includes a few white secretaries who simply were not featured in the photo-op. The point still very much stands: when “diversity” is the headline, the visual product is the systematic reduction of the historic majority. For a longer view of what governance looks like once non-whites hold decisive power and the old institutional restraints are gone, look at Haiti. After the 1804 massacre ordered by Dessalines, the remaining white population was effectively eliminated. Two centuries later the country has never built stable institutions, rule of law, or sustained prosperity. Gangs control large parts of Port-au-Prince. The Catholic Church is one of the few remaining sources of social order; French and other foreign clergy continue to serve there and are routinely targeted for kidnapping. Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, a former police officer turned gang leader, is among the most powerful men in the capital. The nickname’s origin is disputed—he attributes it to his mother’s chicken stand; critics link it to alleged massacres—but the outcome is not: armed groups, not the state, set the terms. There is no Jim Crow, no “white privilege,” and no foreign colonial administration to blame for Haiti’s condition today. The pattern is not unique to Haiti. Across multiple independent black-majority countries the same institutional and social outcomes recur. The progressive & ‘creedal nation’ conservatives claim that these populations are interchangeable with the historic American people, & that any disparity is explained by systemic racism, collides with the record. Scripture, stats, & observation reject the idea of equal, interchangeable races. In-group preference is normal, natural human behavior. The duty is clear IMO: reject the race-Marxist framework, defend the actual American people & our inheritance as Southerners, support local institutions & like-minded groups, & refuse to treat degeneracy, open borders, “diversity” & miscegenation as moral progress.

“White Supremacy” was a term created by Africans to describe an objective civilizational truth. This isn’t racist.

Good morning Dixie. Let's make this a great day for the South!

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We do America but it's explicitly founded on White Supremacy, reinforces small government democracy and a voluntary union of states under a truly republican form of government united under a shared history and culture that is visibly observable and definable.

-Dr. David Gordon, PhD in History, UCLA @mises “Jeb Smith's "I'll Take My Stand: Defending the Causes of Southern Secession" shows conclusively that the South seceded in order to resist the efforts of the radical centralizers... It is a magnificent defense of Southern culture.

The look on his face when the computer translates his words 🥹 🙏.

The biggest change that developed as we went from being "America" to "Post-Civil Rights America with the Great Society Too" is that we lost sight of the purpose of life Is it greatness, or taxing greatness out of existence to fund an eternal national hot dog eating contest? Apparently, it is the latter. About a third of every dollar we make is confiscated, and is only rarely put into anything important. The military shreds most of its funding on being a jobs and benefits program. Social Security takes from the young to give to the old. And most of the remainder is just welfare for the underclass, which largely consists of various ways to funnel as much soybean oil and high-fructose corn syrup into the gaping maws of the idle as possible before then treating them for the inevitable medical conditions that result. $2 trillion a year is spent on such Dewayne Geld programs, and much of the deficit is attributable to them...which means the $1 trillion annual interest expense is too Is that really the point of a nation? Just to see how much slop can be consumed forever? I don't think so. Washington didn't think so. Our ancestors didn't think so. It is the mindset that has come about since the New Deal, the Civil Rights Act, and the "Great Society", but it is not the American spirit Returning to being the America that does things will mean shrugging off that millstone, and becoming America again

It's these photos and messages that keep me going. Some see this, get so angry that they lose hope, and give up. I see this, get angry, and it drives me to action. I can't stand to see my state fall like this. Blackpilling is a tool of the devil. But angels have righteous fury.

"We only ask for our constitutional rights... If you deny them to us, we will take our rights into our own hands and defend them as best we can." -William Lowndes Yancey/Prominent Southern "Fire-Eater" and Secessionist Long Live DiXie!

Be hostile and unwelcoming to carpetbaggers and foreigners to avoid this. Few will understand the pain of the minority of us real Virginians left in this state. The public perception people from elsewhere had of this state when I was a kid vs now is night and day. Shameful

Do we all finally understand the actual meaning of the word “diversity”?