Rising Hegemon
...ball attendees, who will pay $100 a ticket, will don formal, period dress, eat and dance the Virginia Reel as a band plays “Dixie.” The evening’s highlight will be a play reenacting the signing of South Carolina’s Ordinance of Secession 150 years ago, which severed the state’s ties with the Union and paved the way for the Civil War.
Okay, first, they're reenacting signing ceremonies now? They used to limit this middle-aged activity for people too racist for SCA to Pickett's Charge or for these folks the joy of 'The Massacre at Fort Pillow'. But signing ceremonies? I guess the reenactor demo is getting old.
The last few times we heard from the 'Sons of Confederate Veterans' they were either successfully pressuring Obama to send a traditional commemorative wreath (sign of things to come) or unsuccessfully attempting to get the History channel to run an ad during 'Ice Road Truckers' about the poor oppressed slaveholders of the antebellum.
How many Republican Congresspersons from ol' Dixie are "proud members"? Or is it just all of them with a few Democrats thrown in?
[Cross-Posted at Firedoglake]
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Will George Allen and friends be singing the Bonnie Blue Flag song at the banquet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjOIFGrYtaE&feature=related
I hope a bunch of Union re-enactors will show up outside the venue, each bearing an American flag, and surround the place. Maybe a fife-and-drum corps to play Yankee Doodle, really, really loudly. You know, a little show of heritage.
It's actually a Purity Ball, where they'll sign a Racial Purity Pledge.
racism under historic rugs.
Perhaps some Union re-enactors should repeat Sherman's march to the sea.
Or we could ask for a return of all the money the feds have pumped into this retarded region in the last century and a half to drag them out of their backward-ass bigoted plantation economy.
How long before they will begin "reenacting" lynching???
The South lost the Civil War. So they're celebrating the fact that they're all descended from a bunch of losers?
"I guess the reenactor demo is getting old."
I think that's exactly it. A signing ceremony is about all they've got the mojo for these days.
Here's the deal: they're taking the economy back to the antebellum era, except this time the new poor and unemployed will be pleading for indentured status just to have a roof and 3 squares.
Fair and Balanced like.
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