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Entry: Confederates and Catholics, Unite! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/down_in_dixie#2518 Post contents: Tut, tut, Mr. Van Oosbree, tut, tut. The Know-Nothings were from Dixie? Hardly, sir. Try Salem, MA. Al Smith had no opposition in Yankeeland? Sir! What is more, the Klan in the 1920s, the "Second Klan", was primarily an Anti-Catholic camorra; indeed my grandfather Cundiff joined it then because he was (regrettably) Anti-Catholic, only to quit two days later because it was also Negrophobic, which he (and most white Southern Appalachians) was not. (West VA, by the way, voted for Kennedy in 1960 [Humphrey's MN was settled first by New Englanders]) Well, sir, this 1920s Klan had as many members north of the Potomac and the Ohio as South. Cf the Wikipedia on the q.v. Klan and the q.v. "Black Legion". Peter Viereck says "Catholic baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals." Dixie ain't liberal, sir. She also ain't feminist, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered -- another bunch of Catholicphobes. I know of no ACT UP and WHAM! chapters in The Land of Cotton. From where Amanda Marcotte hails, I can't say, but I'd put money on Boston. For the byword, sir, for Anti-Catholic frenzy is "New England". Get yourself and ed-ja-kay-shun and cast your eyes upon the Wikepedia article on q.v. Anti-Catholicism, for starters, and find out what part of the country Catholicphobia had its source. Granted the atrocity against the Urslines in Charleston MA isn't common knowledge. Tut, tut, sir; tut tut. Sent at: 2008 08 29