🇺🇸 Confederate Reckoning: a #lecture by Professor of #History Stephanie McCurry. https://youtu.be/kMf6TT7Le8s #Youtube #Video #Videos #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #America #C19th #19thCentury #Confederacy @histodon @histodons

The #Republican #GrandOldParty is the New #Confederacy.

This is what happens when a nation allows those who commit #treason and start a #CivilWar to resume their #military and #political careers without any punishment or consequences for their actions when they're defeated.

It's taken longer than they'd hoped, but January 6, 2021 was the modern version of their ancestor's attack on #FortSumter, April 12, 1861, 160 years earlier.

#Jan6 #GOP

"Frederick Douglass, who was born into Southern #slavery, described the South as “a little nation by itself, having its own language, its own rules, regulations, and customs.”

Fewer than 2000 families — six-tenths of one percent of the Southern #population — owned more than 50 enslaved people and ruled the #oligarchy that we call the #Confederacy with an iron fist. The 75 percent of white #people in the South during that era who did not own any enslaved persons generally lived in deep #poverty.

#Women had no rights, #queer people were routinely #tortured and #murdered, #education for both enslaved #Africans and poor whites was generally outlawed, #religious attendance was often mandated, and #hunger and #disease stalked all but those in the #families of the two thousand morbidly #rich planter #dynasties.

#Modern-day Red states are doing their best to recreate that old Confederacy, right down to state Senator Kathy #Chism’s new effort to return the Confederate battle flag to #Mississippi's state flag. Ron #DeSantis and Mike #Pence have both emphasized their presidential pledges to restore the names of murderous Civil #War #traitors to #American #military bases, celebrating their armed defense of the “values” of the Old South.

Today’s version of yesteryear’s #plantation owners are called #CEOs, hedge and vulture fund managers, and the morbidly rich.

They use the power of #political #bribery given them by five corrupt #Republicans on the #SupremeCourt — with Clarence #Thomas’ tie-breaking #Citizens United vote on behalf of his sugar daddy Harlan #Crow — to lord over their Red states, regardless of the will of those states’ citizens."

https://www.alternet.org/welfare-queens/

Google Books

book: Texas After The Civil War

"With the demise of the Davis administration, the Texas Democratic party took over the reins of government and controlled them virtually unchallenged until the middle of the twentieth century. At least through the nineteenth century, the Redeemer Democrats who represented the plantation, merchant, and railroad interests that had come to dominate the party by the end of Reconstruction remained in control and shaped not only party policy but also that of the state government. Their basic positions on public affairs began to be formed almost immediately during the sessions of the Fourteenth Legislature as party leaders attempted to secure three major goals. The first was to lower taxes as much as possible, a purpose that cemented small farmers to the party and fulfilled the desires of the large landed interests of the state, including planters and by this time the railroads. The second objective was the continued encouragement of economic development through aid to railroads and other such endeavors, though without raising taxes. And the third was securing the state's landed interests' control over labor. A new constitution in 1876 provided the institutional framework that assured that the Redeemers achieved these ends. Democratic politics throughout the rest of the century revolved around the use of whatever means were needed to maintain power to meet the party's aims.

"The Fourteenth Legislature began the process necessary for Democrats to gain their political goals, but from the beginning, party leaders realized that achieving them required changes in the basic institutions of government. As a result, during the first session, they initiated efforts at writing a new consti- tution. Governor Coke and other Democratic leaders originally wanted law- makers to carry out this task, avoiding the costs of a convention and also lim- iting the possibilities that an open fight would take place between the party's regular leadership and the agrarians. A committee drafted a document that differed from the Constitution of 1869, before its amendment, primarily in its provisions for supporting internal improvements and carrying out elections. The proposal confirmed the use of land grants as a means of encouraging the development of a transportation system, maintained a system of voter regis tration, and added the requirement that all voters had to pay a poll tax, a feature clearly intended to restrict black participation. What would have been the Constitution of 1874 failed to pass both houses of the legislature, however. This led to a constitutional convention in 1875.

"The convention met at Austin on September 6, 1875, and remained in ses- sion for almost three months. Democrats dominated the proceedings, and even though disputes developed between the delegates who represented the controlling interests of the party and agrarians-possibly forty of the ninety delegates were members of the Grange-they produced a draft constitution..."

chapter: Conservative Triumph
page 199

#confederacy
#CivilWar
#history #USHistory
#conservatives
#taxes
#LaborRights
#corporations

Most of Florida didn't even HAVE slave plantations. The swamp was settled by poor farmers trying to get away from the immense poverty of slaveholding areas, because, big surprise: SLAVERY WAS BAD, even for whites who didn't own slaves. Floridians were later forced at gunpoint to fight in the Civil War, for a government that *didn't even consider them worthy of rights.*

#DeSantis should condemn the criminals running the #Confederacy for what they did to #Florida.

Most of Florida didn't even HAVE slave plantations. The swamp was settled by poor farmers trying to get away from the immense poverty of slaveholding areas, because, big surprise: slavery is bad for everyone who doesn't own slaves. Many Floridians were later forced at gunpoint to fight in the Civil War, for a government that *didn't even consider them worthy of rights.*

#DeSantis should condemn the criminals running the #Confederacy for what they did to #Florida.

"All capture a determination to slip the bonds of national authority and impose a set of rules and policies that reflect the priorities and grievances of the primarily older, white, nonurban and Christian coalition that has placed these states’ leaders in power."

#Texas #GregAbbott #constitution #Confederacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"Abbott’s willingness to pursue such a militant enforcement campaign, and the decision by so many Republican governors to assist him, provides another measure of the same impulse evident in the proliferating red-state laws restricting or banning abortion, rolling back voting rights, and prohibiting gender-affirming care for transgender minors."

#Texas #GregAbbott #constitution #Confederacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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~ Ron Brownstein

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/texass-immigration-policy-biden/674784/

"Sooner or later, this Democratic administration is going to face a situation like the one Eisenhower had in Little Rock in 1957 and like the one Kennedy faced in Mississippi in 1962. The national government cannot stand idly by while a bunch of tinhorns take us all back to the Articles of Confederation, if not to the Confederate States of America. There will be hell to pay, but the price will be worth it."

~ Charles Pierce

#Republicans #Confederacy #constitution

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44628758/gop-border-nullifaction-crisis-greg-abbott/

My partner and I have been thinking today about all the different narratives we were told about the civil war and the north/north’s soldiers/generals while growing up.

Outside of Abe Lincoln, I can’t think of a single positive thing. Grant was a drunk and won because he was a butcher. All the other generals were just trash. The north just had more people. The north only fought because they were snaky capitalists that wanted the south’s land (this is the most bitterly amusing one to me now, who is the most naked of all capitalistic money hungry bean counting violent money grabbers than a fucking ENSLAVER?????). And I grew up in a solid blue state that had multiple stops on the under ground railroad and was home to multiple formerly enslaved people that helped organize resistance to slavery and then troops for the civil war!

Dear partner and I have worked very hard over the years to undo and then relearn a proper civil war history- this holiday break we’re going to be watching civil war movies and laughing at the loser confederacy and doing research to find more truth.

What are the narratives you grew up with around the US civil war? And what is a truth you’ve since found out that you think the entire world should know???

#USCivilWar #CivilWar #USGrant #NorthSouth #North #South #Union #Confederacy

@ophiocephalic @TheWildHuntNews

Dear Rep. Moron;

The #BlackHills is a sacred site for #NativeAmericans who were granted exclusive rights under the #TreatyOfFortLarami [1].

It was cool until gold was discovered in treaty lands.

Then, #WhiteAmerica decided taking back the land [2] and carving a #Racist, #WhiteSupremecist, monument to the #Confederacy would be better.

[1] Check your #Constitution on where treaties sit in law.
[2] and yet #IndianGiver implies that THEY took the "giving" back.

Mississippi senator Kathy Chism is craving to have that old Confederate battle flag back as part of the Mississippi state flag.

Her rationale: a lot of "our people" died fighting for the Confederacy and the flag.

Mississippi is nearly 40% African-American. A lot of the people of Mississippi died in human bondage, bought and sold as human chattel.

It appears that in the minds of folks like Chism, those people don't count.

#Mississippi #Confederacy #democracy

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/34094/senator-calls-for-return-of-old-mississippi-flag-our-people-died-under-that-flag

“When you try to use Black history to shoehorn in #queer theory, you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes.”- #desantis

Yeah…I guess there wouldn’t be ANY other reasons you’d teach #blackhistory
Aye Gov? I mean other than turning kids #gay 🌈
By the way I’m not surprised you want to name more things after the #confederacy
But naming stuff after traitors to our country…is a hard sell.
https://apple.news/ALNSKck_6S--ihBR8w3D7Sg

@mekkaokereke

I'll take "Daughters of the #Confederacy" for $1000.

“Federal officials permitting politics to trump the rule of law in our past have brought us to this moment.

The willingness of #government officials to ignore the rule of law in order to buy #peace has given us enduring reverence for the principles of the #Confederacy & allowed their reclamation of the South...plus instituted new Nixonian corruption levels." #HeatherCoxRichardson

Both of these new normals are fully woven into our societal fabric & are, literally, needlessly ruining us now.

“Federal officials permitting politics to trump the rule of law in our past have brought us to this moment.

The willingness of #government officials to ignore the rule of law in order to buy #peace has given us enduring reverence for the principles of the #Confederacy & allowed their reclamation of the South...plus instituted new Nixonian corruption levels." #HeatherCoxRichardson

Both of these new normals are fully woven into our societal fabric & are literally, needlessly ruining us now.

#indictment #karilake and #andybiggs want violence #mikepence wants to restore the #confederacy

by #PemaLevy in #MotherJones

"Fort Bragg, one of the largest military bases in the country, officially became Fort Liberty on Friday, the first of nine military bases in the South that will ditch their confederate namesakes."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/fort-bragg-fort-liberty-confederate-name-change/

#FortLiberty #FortBragg #confederate #confederacy #MilitaryBases #military

5 Things You Must Know About #Juneteenth
https://www.theroot.com/cheat-sheet-5-things-you-must-know-about-juneteenth-1850497004
#June19th is the day we honor the #freedom of those who were #enslaved in the #Confederacy.

#confederacy #Army Fort Bragg Renamed As Biden DOD Pushes To Remove Confederate Memorabilia https://www.dailywire.com/news/fort-bragg-renamed-as-biden-dod-pushes-to-remove-confederate-memorabilia