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Entry: Confederates and Catholics, Unite! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/down_in_dixie#2511 Post contents: We need more Yankees like Charles A. Coulombe! Only to add: 1. It wasn’t a “civil war”. A civil war is when two or more groups are attempting to take control of the government. Jeff Davis didn’t wish to be president in Washington. Rather, it was the “War Against Southern Secession”, the WASS, started by Lincoln. Just call it “Lincoln’s War”. By the way, we also didn’t have a “revolutionary war”. A revolution is when there is an overthrow of the government. George Washington didn’t wish to rule in London. Rather, it was “The War Against American Secession From the British Empire”; the WAASEFBE will do. 2. Lincoln’s War was about tariffs, of tariffs, by tariffs, for tariffs (so to speak). Period. Full stop (for y’all in Albion). 3. <i>Germans in the Piedmont [...] and Ulster Scots (or Scotch-Irish as they came to be called) </i> There was indeed a sprinkling of Germans in the Piedmont, mostly Dunkers (are they Anabaptists?) and in my own home town, Winston-Salem, Hussites (“Moravians”). But the overwhelming Piedmont settlers were the Borderer/Backcountry men – a mouthful, but better than “Scots-Irish”. We Backcountry boys aren’t Scottish (neither Highland or Low) or Irish. And Ulster was just our first place of migration from the Borders. 4. <i>Those who have been to Wilmington , Baltimore , Kansas City, or Tulsa may dispute my assignation of those areas to Dixie , but travel a bit deeper into the countryside, and the reason for their allocation will become obvious.</i> I ain’t disputin’! If Delaware south of Wilmington, and East Shore MD ain’t Dixie, then I don’t know Dixie. MO south of the Missouri and outside of German settlements is very Dixie, and has one of the most dynamic chapters of The League of the South. Oklahoma has been Dixie from the start, settled by a mixed group of Borderers and “The Aboriginal Peoples”. 5. <i>We outsiders tend to think of the South as heavily Calvinist. She may well be, but she got it from the North.</i> Only big boo-boo in this fine article. Take a gander at a dull but very informative book, Griffin, Patrick, <i>The People With No Name : Ireland’s Ulster Scots, America’s Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic world, 1689-1764 </i>. Already in Ulster in the late 17th Century there was a split in the Presbyterians between the “Subscribers” (to the Westminster Confession) and the “Non-Subscribers” who emphasized the “Inner Light”. This latter group in the Backcountry became Arminian Methodists and Particular Baptists during the first Great Awakening from the preaching of Englishmen: Asbury and Whitefield. New England witch burning Puritan Cromwellian Calvinists ain’t had nuthin’ to do with it no way! By the way, the only surviving General Baptists whom I know of are the Free Will Baptists of eastern NC. 6. Thanks for some Black History that’s ignored. And some Catholic history! 7. EVERYBODY who wishes to know ANYTHING about Gringo history needs to drop everything and get a hold of <i>Albion's Seed</i>! Fischer teaches at Brandeis; along with St. Judah P. Benjamin, just call it the Dixie-Jewish connection. Sent at: 2008 09 06