“Neo-Confederate" and "Neo-Confederate Movement” By Tim Manning

Tim Manning

“Neo-Confederate" and "Neo-Confederate Movement" are popular terms used by people who are uninformed or misinformed and consider themselves enemies of traditional minded Southern people. These terms are linguistically intended to be a version of "Neo-Nazi" which is of course designed to be an automatic condemnation of the vilest nature of an individual without really giving any actual definitions or arguments against them or their beliefs.

These terms are most often meant to be particularly degrading insults and are used by those who either know very little about the South or Southerners or by highly "reconstructed (radically indoctrinated to the New World Order or Post Lincoln World Order)" Southerners. There is no singular "neo-Confederate" movement and indeed it may not be said that there is any real traditional Southern movement(s).

The largest Southern "Confederate" organization is the Sons of Confederate Veterans whose leadership is dominated by politically correct reconstructed descendants of Confederate Veterans and high ranking Confederate government leaders who have kicked traditional thinking Southerners out of their organization. The organization had been moving in more traditional directions until their "Granny-Gate" crisis through which neocon Past CIC Chris Sullivan used to cover a purge the SCV of those members who were promoting more traditional Southern positions. Granny-Gate was much more about purging the SCV of League of the South members than it was the other group of Grannies who were trying to take over the organization.

Most of us who are in Southern organizations are Southerners whose families never surrendered their Confederate views and more particularly never surrendered their Christian faith from which their cultural views come. Our views were those of the U.S. Founders views of government and a distinctively Southern personal culture.

As a result of Granny-Gate the National Sons of Confederate veterans lost 28%-34% of its membership and now nearly 10 years later the membership has not recovered and the organization has become more and more centralized and politically correct. This is disappointing to thousands who retain traditional Southern Confederate views as more men either resign from the SCV or allow their membership to expire.

Many of us are simply "Confederates" to those who do not realize that the Confederate views were the SAME as those of the original signers of the Constitution of the United States. The Confederate View is indeed the original and classical "American View" of government, freedom, liberty and independence held by all well-educated folks living in the American States.

The views of the original Founders of the United States are never examined by modern scholars but simply rejected by fascists usually with the simply glib mantra of "Well, that was then, but this is now." For nearly 30 years graduate history students have been told in major universities "not to read the primary historical documents", but to read the summaries of others written during the last 5-8 by academics. Western universities have become notorious centers of vigorous anti-intellectualism that since World War II have led the assault against Southern Views on culture and governance and against orthodox Christian beliefs and practices.