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Carolina Contrarian

The Nations of the USA

12/3/2020

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​Most Americans think of their nation as fifty states, with familiar outlines on a map. They think of the Founding Fathers, the red, white and blue flag, and the capital building at Washington, DC. 

Though the unique inception and development of the United States of America undoubtedly has made the population of the USA more varied than that of most nations, until the past few decades, the word "American" had a real meaning and brought to mind a type of character that was identifiable to people across the world, and with which most of the citizenry more or less identified. Over the past fifty years or so, due to mass immigration and intensive propaganda campaigns by the mainstream media, we are led to believe that "American" is a designation available to anyone who meets a low bar of criteria established by paid-for politicians and verified by disinterested bureaucrats. Ilan Omar, Rashida Talib, and truckloads of border-hoppers are as American as Thomas Jefferson. How dare you suggest otherwise?

We are seeing the beginnings of an awakening among Heritage Americans. (The fact that "Heritage Americans" even needs to be specified indicates the absurdity of the question of nationalism in the country today). We have considered people who dwelled within the borders of the USA to be American. We have considered people who dwelled within the borders of Texas to be Texan, and those who dwelled within the borders of Georgia to be Georgian.

The current election fiasco highlights the problem. Chuck Schumer and various Golden Swamp-dwelling Hollywood celebrities have been waging a campaign to "take Georgia" for the Senate. A similar effort to "Turn Texas Blue" has been raging for years now, and has been successful enough that in his last contest, Senator Ted Cruz barely hung on to his seat by the skin of his teeth. The fact that Georgia, Texas, Virginia, and North Carolina get bluer with every passing year is not due to leftists' success in persuading the historic population of the merits of their policies. These states have been flooded with immigrants, from both foreign nations and other American states, that are hostile to the historic population. We must ask: In what way are the state borders meaningful today, if at all?

The headlines are full of disputes about disenfranchisement of voters in swing states caused by various election shenanigans. There are accusations of rampant fraud which will never be completely resolved, leading to uncertainty and the stink of illegitimacy for whoever is eventually sworn into the Presidency.

If you consider that Americans (and Georgians, Virginians, and Texans) are a culturally and historically distinct people, and you value the consent of the governed as fundamental to the legitimacy of government, all this wrangling about the legitimacy of the last election is beside the point. What if we accurately count the votes of a random group of people with no common sense of identity, or common anything, who happen to live within the lines on a map? Can a true representative government come from a hodge-podge of hostile groups, based upon a count of who successfully pulled more of their kindred into the pen by election day? Of course not. There are people groups who are not being represented, however the votes are counted. In our current situation, it is the historic, founding population that is being disenfranchised.

Currently there is a groundswell of Republican voters calling for mutiny against the GOP. There is more than enough reason to revolt. With the balance of the Senate at stake, Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee just successfully co-sponsored, with Kamala Harris, a measure that will allow big tech companies to bring in an unlimited number of H-1B green card workers. And Republicans are ignoring demands from the public to take seriously the mountains of evidence of voter fraud that may have cost Trump his re-election bid.

Michael Flynn Jr, son of recently pardoned General Flynn, tweeted "I'd rather be shot in the chest than stabbed in the back" with regards to a boycott on voting for the GOP in the upcoming Georgia run-off. In a profanity-laced lived stream entitled "That Georgia rally just cost the GOP the Senate," in which the gathering of thousands of citizens to protest election fraud was seemingly ignored by the party brass, Mike Cernovich, a social media influencer credited with helping move the dial to Trump in 2016, ranted, "They've done nothing for us. They give us no reason to vote for them other than the Chuck Schumer boogeyman. F*** the GOP." If one is to use social media as a gauge, cries of this sort are becoming deafening. 

One definition of "nation" is "a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own." 

A nation is a body of people conscious of it unity. Our political borders are increasingly irrelevant, and our elected lawmakers increasingly non-representative.

It is time to ask yourself a question, and answer with unvarnished realism.

Who are your people?
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Anon
12/3/2020 11:58:58 am

So you're suggesting... it may be better for the Ds to win Georgia and swamp the "united" "states" with more radical egalitarianism? Asking seriously as I've pondered this myself. The US has no future as a nation; I'm just hoping the split is relatively peaceful. And fearlessly predict it'll follow the outlines of the old Confederacy, Virginia is Southern clay.

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Bill Hill
12/4/2020 03:52:12 am

I think of Virginians, Georgians, Texans, etc as a single group along with the rest of Dixie, and I have seen some self identify online as Dixian. I hope the ethnonym catches on.

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Paul Bonneau
12/4/2020 09:45:51 am

"and you value the consent of the governed as fundamental to the legitimacy of government"

Read the following, and then let me know what you think about the notion "consent of the governed":
https://mises.org/library/consent-governed

"Can a true representative government come from a hodge-podge of hostile groups"

I'm glad you have come to this realization, but you haven't gone quite far enough. In reality, political representation is impossible. Whatever goes on in legislatures, representation ain't it. What gets represented are the special interests that bought the seat in the legislature, and the politician's own preferences.

"Representative government" is an 18th Century meme that sounded good at the time, but had little connection with reality.

http://strike-the-root.com/republic-is-fraud

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Anthony Powell
12/5/2020 07:23:59 am

Our esteemed Mississippi Republicans brought down our flag which had been flying for well over 100 years, because a Mississippi State football player said he wouldn't play in 2020 if it wasn't taken down, and because the SEC and NCAA said 'no more tournaments in Mississippi as long as that flag is the state flag.' Instead of telling the football player to take his ass to the house, and instead of telling the SEC and NCAA to go to hell, the limp-wristed Republicans caved in, and down came our flag, which had paid homage to the thousands upon thousands who fought against Lincoln's terroristic invasion of Dixie. Carolina Contrarian is correct.

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TobaccoPlanterAndStockDealer
12/6/2020 09:27:13 am

Last year a question was raised "who are Virginians" or "what does it mean to be Virginian" when Falwell and Justice proposed that central Virginia join West Virginia. It's an important question for all of us to consider and should have been considered long before the times were in now on a regular basis.

Jackson, in his farewell address, tried to put this question to bed: "We behold systematic efforts publicly made to sow the seeds of discord between different parts of the United States and to place party divisions directly upon geographical distinctions; to excite the South against the North and the North against the South,...

The honorable feeling of State pride and local attachments finds a place in the bosoms of the most enlightened and pure. But while such men are conscious of their own integrity and honesty of purpose, they ought never to forget that the citizens of other States are their political brethren, and that however mistaken they may be in their views, the great body of them are equally honest and upright with themselves."

Whether they are citizens or not, the voting majority in Richmond and Northern Virginia are not my people; the voting majority in California are not my people; the voting majority in Chicago are not my people.

I hope when Trump gives his farewell address that he pulls from Jackson; but instead of saying we are political brethren, I hope he's honest and points out that we are not.

It's long over due for some in the US to severe ties that bind us together. It's long over due to make Virginia whole again.

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    The Carolina Contrarian, Anne Wilson Smith, is the author of Charlottesville Untold: Inside Unite the Right. She is a soft-spoken Southern belle by day, opinionated writer by night. She loves Jesus, her family, and her hometown. She enjoys floral dresses and acoustic guitar music. You may contact Carolina Contrarian at CarolinaContrarian@protonmail.com.

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