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“Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction,” with editors Euan Hague, Heidi Beirich, and Edward H. Sebesta, with Foreword by James Loewen, publication has been announced by the University of Texas Press.
The web page for the book is at: The web page has a table of contents and the Introduction to the book. Also, you can browse the book.
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Southern Mercury
The Southern Mercury is a publication of the Educational PAC of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). It was published from 2003 to 2008 with volumes 1 to 6 with a total of 23 issues. This article reviews some of the issues of the Southern Mercury relative to the SCV's claims that it is "heritage not hate" and to give some idea of the general character of this publication and to inform the reader who is writing for the SCV. It should be noted that the Southern Mercury is produced by the SCV's educational PAC, that is the contents are meant to educate the reader. I am not going to initially review all the issues but just some of the more notable issues. As time permits I will add some more commentary on more articles.
Vol. 1 No. 2 (Sept./Oct. 2003) -- The cover theme is "Who's Next: Southern Politicians Ousted," which is for an article where Robert Slimp, activist in the Council of Conservative Citizens www.cofcc.org recounts the defeat of politicians who opposed the Confederate flag. (pp. 16-21). Slimp is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of America and a retired US Army Chaplain.
The article of interest in this issue is "Where We Stand Now: And How We Got Here," (pp. 10-14) by Frank Conner, who is the author "The South Under Siege 1830-2000: A History of the Relations Between the North and South." He has a web page for the book at http://collards.phantacom.net. This article claims that liberals "infiltrated" southern institutions and launched an attack to destroy the south by using civil rights legislation.
In a section titled, "The Liberals Create a False Public Image of the Blacks," Conner writes the following:
Later in the same section:
The following section in the article is titled "The Liberals Destroy the Old South in the Name of Black Civil Rights." Conner writes that "Northern liberal writers launched a hate campaign" in 1947 against the South which he explains consists of desegregating the armed forces, passing a civil rights bill which he calls radical, and the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Supreme Court decision which he calls unconstitutional..
Later Conner in this section claims that a campaign of "vilification" resulted in Civil Rights legislation stating:
Conner in subsequent sections explains how liberals are now continuing attacks on the white south through attacks on Confederate heritage. Conner proposes to change the SCV to preserve "our heritage" stating:
What this "heritage" includes, as clearly stated earlier by the Conner's article would include the repeal of all Civil Rights legislation. For as Conner explains about civil rights which he calls "Reconstruction II":
The contents of this article come from his book mentioned above, without the books many references to Jews as the persons leading the attack on the South in the Civil Rights campaign.
In the same issue Ann Rives Zappa reviews "The South Under Siege: 1830-2000). She praises it stating "The South Under Siege is a masterful work painstakingly researched by author Frank Conner."
Ann Rives Zappa is explains in her review:
Later, in the review:
Zappa explains that Conner has a plan to fight the liberals but that it is "not for the fainthearted" and that:
In the biographical notes it states that she has a website www.annzappa.com.
What Zappa doesn't discuss is Conner writings about Jews. Conner in his book sees Jews attacking the South. The following are some sub-headings to chapter 20 in the book.
Reading the last two sections is interesting. Whereas in the Southern Mercury Conner discusses Boas and his views in IQs without mentioning Jews, in the book it is all about Jews with Conner explaining that "Jews dominated the field of cultural anthropology." (Page 393)
Conner in another section explains:
And,
Vol. 4 No. 4 (July/August 2006) -- This issue contains a lengthy article titled "The Tolerance Scam" by Michael W. Masters. It primarily concerns itself with attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center. However, it also explains that the very concept of anti-racism is an attack on the West and Christianity and civil rights legislation is also an attack on society. The following are a couple extracts.
Masters sees immigration as "the cultural Marxists' ultimate weapon in breaking the hegemony of Western culture." In expressing his fears of a multiracial society he asks the reader:
Vol. 6 No. 2 -- (March/April 2008) In this issue Alan Stang has an article "Republican Party: Red From the Start." Stang has a website www.alanstang.com. This article sees a communist conspiracy in the Republican party of the mid-19th century. He alleges that the 1848 revolutionaries in Europe were all communists and that some of these revolutionaries came to America after the failed 1848 revolution to perpetrate some type of communist agenda in the United States. Stang states:
Another quote is:
When reading the Southern Mercury one is never at a loss for hilarious hysteria.
Vol. 6 No. 3 -- (May/June 2008) Robert Slimp has an article "Americans Face the Worst Presidential Candidates in History." Slimp doesn't like Hilary Clinton, John McCain or Barack Obama. Interestingly enough he considers Clinton the lesser evil than McCain who he says doesn't adequately oppose illegal immigration and supports NAFTA Superhighway. However his discussion of Obama is perhaps the most hysterical in the article.
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