Are the Confederates coming?

Now that the southern regions of this country seem to control our political future we have to ask what will be the long-term consequences to our civic and personal culture?

Do we think anyone who once was a "commander in chief" of a group called The Sons of Confederate Veterans automatically qualifies as an extremist? Maybe so.


Is this symbol racist? It does use the rebel flag which is incendiary for some.


I wonder what exactly he sold that was antisemetic? Other than a dangerously romantic view of the so-called second American revolution, love of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Less, and the confederate flag, does this group pose a serious threat to American democracy? Of course, maybe Chimpy's references to the Dred Scott decision has some connections to neo-confederate groups such as this.

From The New York Times, national briefs, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004:

SOUTH CAROLINA: OFFICIAL SEEKS TO VOID APPOINTMENT The state superintendent
of education, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, has asked the Anderson County legislative delegation to reverse its appointment to the State Board of Education last week of Ron Wilson, a former commander in chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The Southern Poverty Law Center said Mr. Wilson had sold anti-Semitic books and led an effort to purge moderates and appoint extremists to leading positions in his organization, which is composed of male descendants of Confederate soldiers. The appointment was made on a 4-to-3 vote. There was no reply to a message left for Mr. Wilson at his business in Easley.