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| Well I'm a good ole Rebel, now that's just what I am. To except their kind of freedom I do not care a damn. I'm glad I fought against them, I only wish we'd won, and I don't needs no pardon fer anything I are done. Three hundred thousand Yankee's is stiff in Southern dust, we got three hundred thousand before they conquered us. They died of Southern fever, Southern steel and shot, and I wish it been three million in place of what we got! The above: Sentiments sung by a Reb at the first Confederate reunion, Limestone County TX. on the Navasota River. The 1889 meeting was the first of a series of annual reunions that continued with few interruptions for the next 57 years. *** |
| My teeth are black and my shoulders sag, but I fly the Confederate flag. I been told there's a war that's about to began. Hear it's going to get meaner than a Texas high wind. So come on Jesse, your a man to join in, when your fightin' Yankee's a Redneck is a man's best friend! The charcoal top left "Try Me", was done for me by Civil War & Indian artist Dick Lopeman. Dick passed away in 1988 and is missed by many. The title White Trash is from the album "White Mansions" banned from radio in the late 70's for telling the truth. *** |
| Pictured at left is Pvt. Edmund Ruffin. This ole Rebel is said to fired the first shot of The War for Southern Independence at Fort Sumter. He swore he would never live under the Union flag. After the war ended, he wrapped himself in a Confederate Flag and is said, put a bullet in his head. *** |
| The Ordeal of Dr.Mudd Dennis Weaver and myself winter of 1980 at Fort Pulaski Ga: I was an extra in the movie. Had a ball and even made $80 a day plus room and board! This was the forth movie I was in as an extra. The only one I played a Yank in :^) *** |
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| Equality is the greatest accomplishment and worst failure of America. It is the place where idealism and reality come to blows in American culture. "Those People have an enduring necessity for a social "other" . They have has chosen the working class Southern whites as the focal scapegoat of our time. This in, media, comics, literature, film and television; dealing in depth with the areas of religion, race relations, work and lifestyle in defining working class Southern whites. America is quickly losing the regional distinctiveness of the South through their race for progress. Society is demoralizing the working man through typecasting as rednecks and hillbilly's. Yet America may be destroying a part of itself that should have been explored and listened to. The man who represents faith, hard work, kinship loyalty and traditional values and way of life is being trampled upon because of the guilt and questioning which his existence creates in the world of progress, business and affluence that America is now so committed to. |
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| USE BY "THOSE PEOPLE" WHEN SPEAKING OF SOUTHRON. White Trash, Redneck, Hillbilly, Yokel, Hick, Cracker, Backward, Country, Peckerwood, Bumbkin, Honkey, Trash, Inbred, Ignorant, bubba & Trailer Trash. |
| CREDITS: John Crowe Ransom's "Reconstructed But Unregenerate" |
| Southern Accents: "There's a Southern accent, where I come from The young'uns call it country The Yankees call it dumb I got my own way of talkin' But everything is done, with a southern accent Where I come from."...Johnny Cash *** |
| "The South--where roots, place, family, and tradition are the essence of identity." |
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| INDEX * IMMORTAL FACTS UNION PRISONS * CAMP DOUGLES * SPECIAL LINKS * MY AWARDS * I DIG-IT AWARDED * GUESTBOOK |
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| Some call him white trash. I call him HERO! |
| PoP, Late 60's |
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