Southern Valor For Northern Aims

from Rebellion:

Friday, August 27, 2010


Southern valor for Northern aims



Who's bleeding and dying for a government that's increasingly hostile to the very people who fight for it? From the Wall Street Journal:





Southerners disproportionately populate all the branches, while the middle-class suburbs surrounding the nation's largest cities—New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia—produce relatively few service members despite having a large percentage of the nation's youth population. ...



While ROTC has been banned from many Ivy League campuses since the Vietnam War, the military also has drawn down its ROTC programs in the Northeast and in urban areas. ROTC has become increasingly Southern and rural.



In Virginia, for example, there are 7.8 million residents and 11 Army ROTC programs. New York City, home to over eight million people and America's largest university student population, has two Army ROTC programs. The entire Chicago metro area, with its 10 million residents, is covered by a single Army ROTC program, as is Detroit. Alabama, population 4.7 million, has 10.



This is hardly a new trend. Martial traditions have long been a part of the Southern Anglo-Celtic character. As Dr. Edward Wilson observed in his autobiography:





The South continued her antebellum dream of the officer and gentleman, honorable, brave, unswerving in service to God and country. He comes to our mind, the newly graduated second lieutenant, clad in dress white, escorting his bride, pretty and sweet, out of the church beneath the raised crossed sabers of his classmates, as his proud family watches. His conduct will henceforth affirm the generally understood historical truth that we lost the War Between the States for lack of arms and the exhaustion of battle-depleted troops. Our men, and especially our officers, were nonetheless individually the finest soldiers in the world at that time. They were Southerners, men not to be trifled with.



Now you understand why commanding officers interviewed on television at Vietnam firebases so often spoke with Southern accents. (Naturalist, p. 18)



We've been clinging to our guns and religion a long, long time. The elites openly despise us, mocking the way we talk, what we believe, and whom we honor, until they need us.



Here's to the day our sacrifices are for our own, instead of for those who only use us.



posted by Old Rebel @ Friday, August 27, 2010