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Entry: Confederates and Catholics, Unite! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/down_in_dixie#2523 Post contents: Sid makes an excellent point: “Catholic baiting is the anti-Semitism of the liberals.” Every major university has a Religious Studies department devoted to exposing the "myth" of Christianity. That's genuine anti-Catholicism. And worse, it throws the Orthodox (of which I'm a convert) under the bus. Murray Rothbard wrote an essay on how anti-anti-Semitism was more dangerous than anti-Semitism. The same is not true with anti-anti-Catholicism, but it still doesn't amount to much. And, clearly, Mr. Van Oosbree's comment was rooted in lack of knowledge about the South. Bernie's point is well-taken, also. But the problem still remains... that the South does not have a Negro Problem as much as it has a Yankee Problem. Almost all of the notorious racial animosity that exists today is rooted in problems that occurred when self-righteous Northerners came down and tormented the South during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights era, and mucked up everything. Murray Rothbard's statement about anti-Semitism could easily be applied to this question: Anti-racism is far more dangerous and a much greater agitant than racism. And, while, yes, it is true that blacks in the South today suffer from a very poor state of affairs, that does not excuse the Yanks for bringing it all on. I happen to know, however, that Bernie is one of the few Copperheads with whom the South has more in common than we do with our blacks. But... rightwing non-evangelical Christians are about the only Northerners with whom this is true, and there are so few of them that there is virtually no Northern culture to speak of. As far as the sectionalism-versus-nationalism question... that debate was crystalized for me when Tom Fleming and Clyde Wilson (sectionalism) debated Sam Francis and Christian Kopff (nationalism) at a mid-'90s John Randolph Club. Fleming and Clyde made the best of it, in my mind. And thank God they created the League of the South, instead of just joining the CCC. Sent at: 2008 10 12