April 25, 2020 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Well, welcome, everybody, to tonight's live broadcast of TPC.
I'm your host, James Edwards, joined as always by the incomparable Keith Alexander.
It is Saturday evening, April the 25th, our last Saturday in Confederate History Month.
And ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to announce to you that we have really perhaps saved our best for last this month.
And it has been a fantastic installment this year.
But Dr. Michael Hill is our closer this year.
We put him in that place on purpose.
And I think you are in for a really good hour of radio as we continue to celebrate Confederate History Month.
Michael Hill, of course, our good friend is the chief of the League of the South, also a retired university professor of history and the author of two books on Celtic warfare, which we will be talking to him about this hour.
Again, talking about the fighting spirit of our southern ancestors.
Michael, great to have you.
James, as always, my friend, it's great to be on with you, and I appreciate the invitation again this year.
You know, we would never let April go by without having you on.
Is that right, Keith?
That's right.
I'll use another baseball analogy.
He's batting cleanup for us this year.
Well, I do appreciate it.
Clean up clothing.
Quite honored.
However you want to put it.
We wanted him to be the last official guest of Confederate History Month.
And so he is.
Well, when this whole thing got kicked off this month, Michael, I put something up on Twitter talking about how I am proud to have descended from fighting men.
I even put the grave of one of my great, great, great-grandfathers in Corinth, Mississippi.
He was one of many in my line who fought to defend his home and his family during the war.
Also put up the historical marker for Shiloh Battlefield because it was on that day 158 years ago this month.
My ancestors were there on that field as well.
And the point I was making is so much of who we are is determined by genetic predisposition.
It's not just our physical features, eye color and hair color and things like that.
It really goes down to the very marrow of our bones, does it not, Michael?
James, it does.
And I'm sitting here about five miles south of where my ancestor, who was at Shiloh all those years ago this month, is buried too.
And Henry Randolph Hill, 16th Alabama Infantry.
We salute him.
It's amazing what they pass down to us.
As you said, not just the eye color and hair color and physical makeup, but the spirit, the spirit that dwells within us as warriors.
And, you know, I've heard the old saying that all the best blood of the South was drained on the battlefields.
I know a lot of it was, but a lot of it, a lot of it made at home, and a lot of it married and had children, and they had children, and so on and so forth, until here we are today carrying forth that fighting spirit.
And I'm sure our enemies wish we had been erased a long time ago.
Well, I was going to say this to Keith.
Keith also has his Confederate ancestors.
We're also very proud of our southern patrimony here at TPC.
But, I mean, is it any surprise?
As I hear you talk about this, it just dawned on me.
Is it any surprise?
Were we fated to have met in our times and be working together here tonight in the very spirit of our ancestors?
You talked about being, you know, your ancestor at Shiloh, mine at Shiloh, Keith's at Shiloh.
And here we are tonight.
Here we are again.
That's pretty incredible.
It really is incredible, James.
And, you know, we're fighting the same fight that they fought, the fight for our independence and recognition as a distinct people and culture on our own land that our ancestors settled and created a civilization in.
It was a howling wilderness before they came here and created that civilization.
And they fought to keep it 150 years or so ago.
And that's what we're doing today.
So we're continuing their fight.
At this point, it's a little bit different circumstances, of course.
But who knows what the future holds.
And I will say this.
Once you've got that Confederate blood in you and you realize who you are, you will stand up against all the odds they can send against you.
And you will not back down.
Michael Keith Alexander here.
I just wanted to let you know that I read your article that we ran on our blog roll.
And it sounds like we had very similar childhoods.
I don't know if you saw it earlier this month, but they had a blog role called The Littlest Rebel.
And it's a picture of me at age seven with a Confederate hat on and a Confederate flag in back of my father's 52 Studebaker after we had stopped at Luray Caverns in Virginia.
And I was excited when I found out that the souvenir shop had a Confederate hat, Confederate flag, and stuff like that, and begged my father to buy it for me, which he did, of course.
And when I was a child, there were two things, two get-ups I would be in, either my Davy Crockett outfit or my Confederate outfit when I went out to play guns or war with my fellow brother southerners in the neighborhood I grew up in.
Well, when I was a little boy, that was pretty much my two choices as well.
In fact, I got pictures of both.
The article he's talking about, Michael, is your very classic.
We run it every year, just like we have you on.
Well, of course, you're on throughout the year, but you're always on in April.
But we also ran your My Heart is in Dixie article that's just so good.
Just really gets to the heart of the matter.
But Sam Bushman, by the way, the owner of our radio network, of course, our network is based in Utah.
But you might find this interesting if you don't know it.
Sam Bushman was adopted, obviously, very early on in life, and his adopted family moved him out west.
But his birth mother was from Alabama.
Well, I didn't know.
So here's this guy in Utah, and his birth father, obviously, too.
So here, you know, our network owner being from Utah, not until much later did I come to know that he was, I've known it for a while now, but I didn't know it for the first few years.
But he, too, is an Alabamian, and here we all are together on the radio tonight.
That's just wonderful.
God is amazing the way he puts people together like this for a just cause.
It never ceases to amaze me how he does it.
Michael, I want to get to your books, one of which we have used as a fundraising incentive.
I believe it was a couple of years ago now.
It got very, very rave reviews from our audience.
And it talks about Celtic warfare.
And we're talking about genetic predisposition.
Our ancestors, where our ancestors, of course, didn't just come up from the soil in the South.
They came from somewhere even before that, all the way to the Isles of the British Isles, and even back to the Celtic nations.
How did that legacy play into the Southerners that we know and love and that we're celebrating this month?
Well, you know, there was a style of warfare that was very aggressive, like our people have always been a very noble, honorable, and aggressive people.
And, you know, you can look back as far back as the Celts fighting against the Romans, subsequently against others.
But you really get to the 16th, 17th centuries and you start to see the development of their modern type tactics, which was called the Island or the Celtic Charge.
And I hear- Hold on right there, my friend.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, a radio pro.
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You know, we have had a great Confederate History Month series this year.
I think we always do.
But we're about to get into right now with Dr. Michael Hill, Chief of the League of the South.
Maybe the most interesting, at least to me in some ways, the most interesting segment we will have covered of the entire month.
We were talking about genetic predisposition in the last segment and how just as all of our ancestors were fighting so many years ago in the war, we all found each other through time and space.
And I just think that there's something there, folks, that is just spiritual and it's just otherworldly, really.
But Michael, we're talking about the Celtic heritage of our southern ancestors and how their fighting styles and tactics go back to their ancient origins.
And I want to play something very quickly.
And it ties into this and then we're going to let you take off.
It is said at the Battle of First Manassas that Stonewall Jackson gave a command to his men to charge and, quote, yell like furies, end quote.
And that's where the Rebel Yell.
Now, that was the birth of the Rebel Yell, basically, or at least one of its earliest appearances on the battlefield.
There's a movie, Gods and Generals, and they nail that scene in the movie.
I'd just like to play it very quickly.
Stand up!
Stand up!
Stand up, Luke!
Stand up, you men!
Stand up, you free men!
We're going to sound there!
We're going to drive them to Washington!
Stand up, Virginia!
Press the game!
Resolve your fire!
Till they come within 50 old!
Take fire!
And give them the bayonet!
And when you charge, yell up, furies!
If you couldn't make out everything that was being said in that clip, if you couldn't make it out, he said, stand up, Virginia.
We're going to charge them.
We're going to drive them back to Washington.
And when you charge, yell like furies.
I mean, it gives you chills just to even hear it being said.
Michael, what do you think it would have been like to see those descendants of the Celts yelling and charging and fighting like we know that they fought?
For the enemy, it would have been a very traumatic experience, James.
Very.
Listen, I've done a lot of research on this.
The first book I wrote was called Celtic Warfare.
And it dealt with a period from the late 16th to the middle of the 18th century.
And they developed during this time the Highland Charge, which was very aggressive.
They always took the offensive.
And in the days of the musket, you could overwhelm an army before they could get off more than a couple of shots.
And if you were yelling like furies and you had those broadswords out, It was a pretty formidable sight, particularly these big raw-boned Celts, you know, in their tartans.
And also, it was pretty traumatic for the enemy.
And I read some of the accounts, first-hand accounts of the battles.
They were very gory.
I mean, you know, you had all kind of body parts lying all over the battlefield, and sometimes the English or, yeah, mainly in this case, English.
formations would simply break and run before the Highlanders got on them.
And that was probably not a bad idea because they were about to get butchered.
But our ancestors, Celtic ancestors who came here and largely settled the hill country and upland country of the South and had a big influence on the rest of the South, brought that fighting spirit and those fighting tactics with them.
And by the time of the War of Northern Aggression, you saw these tactics being displayed in the Confederate armies, Army of Tennessee, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Trans-Mississippi, etc.
And it was great up to a point, up to a point until the Yankees got rifled, you know, rifled weapons that made them accurate at a much longer distance.
So you could not only get off one or two shots while the enemy was charging, but you could get off several and several very accurately.
So we bled ourselves to death because we didn't change our tactics during the War of Northern Aggression.
And that's one of the things that I tried to show in my book, Celtic Warfare, where this style of warfare and the spirit of fighting, this warrior spirit came from.
And I think it's crucial to understanding the temperament and nature and character of Southerners then and now.
So, you know, it has some relevance for the present.
Michael, this is Keith again.
I guess the Gatling gun was the ultimate end of the rebel yell, charge type of tactics that you were talking about.
But going back to be elementary on this, describe to our listeners who the Celts were and where they were from and why, you know, they came to all of America, but why did the South in particular identify itself with its Celtic heritage?
That's a great question, Keith.
Yeah, it certainly is.
Well, the Celts came originally from parts of Central and Southeast Asia through the Eastern European area, the Balkans, into Central Europe, and then eventually they came across to the British Isles.
So when we talk about the ethnicities that came to these shores, you know, several hundred years ago, we're talking about Scots, Scots-Lowlanders, Scots-Highlanders, Scots-Irish, Scots who went and settled in what we call Ulster or Northern Ireland, Irishmen, Welshmen, Cornishmen, Bretons.
That's basically who we're talking about, mostly from the British Isles, and mostly those who spoke some branch of the Celtic languages, either what they call P-Celtic, which is Gaelic, or Q-Celtic, which is mainly Welsh.
And they came here and settled in the American South, really all the way from Pennsylvania and Virginia and West Virginia, on down through the Appalachians into the upland South across North Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Alabama, North Mississippi, etc. and then filtered from there over into Texas, Arkansas, other places.
They came here because they were looking for a frontier.
Much of the Tidewater area and the coastal regions of the Deep South, the Black Belt generally, were already settled mainly by West Country Englishmen, some Welsh.
But these Highlands, Scots, and Scots, Irish, and Irishmen came and they were looking for a frontier.
much like they had been used to living at at home, except one much more expansive.
And they found it.
They found it largely in today what we call Appalachia.
And they crossed over the mountains and or into the mountains and then over and settled these transmontane, as we call them, regions of the South.
And they gave us not only our blood in large part, but a large part of our culture, including the way we fight wars and the warrior spirit that the South has always had.
And if you know anything about the makeup of the U.S. military since 1865, it's largely been made up of Southerners.
It certainly is a ratio.
But if you even look today at Special Forces, you'll find that Special Forces is mainly white, and out of those white boys, it's mainly Southerners.
And I have quite a few friends who fit that description that I work with in the league.
So, you know, we have this warrior spirit, and it came from our ancestors who brought it here so many years ago and handed it off to us.
Thank God they did.
Well, thank God indeed.
And we thank God for you, Michael Hilde.
You're with us for the remainder of the hour.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, isn't it interesting how, you know, we transcend time, our links, our ancestors, our beliefs, our genetic predisposition.
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It's precious to know one's place in the flow of history.
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It's Confederate History Month 2020.
Dr. Michael Hill, our big-time closer.
And we've been talking, just a really, to me, very interesting conversation about who we are.
Yes, Sam, but in just a moment.
Who we are and how we got there and why things are the way they are and how it goes back centuries.
Keith, you had one quick observation about that, and then I want to play another clip and toss it back to our featured guests.
Michael, my mother was a war bride.
My father was in Patton's Third Army and he married an English girl and brought her up.
That was my mother.
So I have a little bit of insight that probably most people don't have on this issue of Celts versus others in England.
You know, in America, American general culture, if you're from the north, you're a sophisticate.
And if you're from the south, you're a hick, right?
Well, in England, it's not north-south.
It is how close you are to London.
The closer in proximity you were to London, the more of a sophisticated you were.
And the further from London, the more of a hick you were.
Well, the Celts were in Devon, Wales, Scotland, Ireland.
In other words, we were the people that were the outliers.
So that's right.
We were considered over there by, and the Puritans were the ones who were close to London and also from the Dane law.
So they and they had this naturally instinctive disdain for southerners that I think was one of the contributing factors to the Civil War.
Of course it was.
It gives me a chance to say a word here about the gentleman I studied under at the University of Alabama who directed my Ph.D. dissertation, which turned into my first book, Dr. Grady McWinney, who did.
What a name.
Yeah, really.
He wrote a book called Attack and Die, which basically said that the Confederate army felt like they're Celtic ancestors.
But he came up with this Celtic thesis of American history, which said that the South's culture, if not its bloodline, too, was dominated by Kells.
And that was very controversial back in the late 70s, early 80s and all.
But that's when I was doing my research, spending time in Ireland and other Celtic areas.
And, you know, I saw this firsthand, and I knew that, hey, you know, this is the way you explain the cultural reasons anyway, as Keith pointed out, for the war between the states.
Michael, one of the most, again, it's very similar to this, but a little more in depth.
It was me and you a year and a half, two years ago, talking about your time over there and how as soon as you stepped off the plane, it triggered your ancestral memory.
And I still use that term quite often after I've picked it up from you and how you just felt at home having never been over there.
As soon as you were there, you were at home.
I want to play a clip that I think is interesting.
We're talking about the rebel yell.
And if anyone's ever wanted to know what it may have sounded like or what it did sound like, here it is.
At a 1935 meeting of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, 90-year-old Thomas Alexander, a veteran of the 37th North Carolina Regiment, was asked to deliver his rendition of the rebel battle cry to a local radio station.
Thanks to that recording, History Publishing Company was later able to have the recording amplified and patterned to match the sound of a Confederate company charging across the battlefield.
Well, what I wouldn't have given to have been in one of those contingents.
We'll go ahead and wrap it up right there, Sam.
What I wouldn't have given to have been in one of those contingents, Michael Hill.
What is your reaction when you hear something like that?
And how can people join a group that they can be proud of today?
Well, I tell you what, if I was the enemy, I'd think the hounds of hell were after me.
Because that's exactly what it sounds like.
Very, very, very formidable.
Well, you know, I put together an organization about 26 years ago.
And by the grace of God, it stood all those years against a lot of opposition and continuing opposition.
But it's called the League of the South.
And we are unapologetic, unreconstructed Southerners, Southern nationalists.
Our goal is a free and independent South.
We seek the survival, well-being, and independence of our people.
And if you are serious about standing up against this, what I call today, for lack of a better historical term, the new Red Terror.
Western civilization faced the first Red Terror, the Communists, about a century ago, 1917, 1918.
And they haven't gone away.
They've just morphed into something else today, but they're the same.
And they are intent on destroying any vestiges of our Western Christian civilization, which, in my opinion, is the strongest here in the American South.
So we're standing up against these people.
Our numbers are relatively small.
Our resources are relatively meager compared to the people that we're fighting against.
But the thing is that we have the truth, and we stand on the side of the true and living God.
And that encourages me every day and every night when I think about the odds arrayed against us.
And I always think back to the great stories in the Bible about, for example, Gideon's 300.
God can overcome much with little if those people on the side of little bow their knee to him and confess that he's Lord and ask him for his help.
And not to sit by and let him do it, but give us the strength and the wisdom and the courage to go out there and do it ourselves through what we call human agency.
God could do it with a snap of his fingers, obviously.
That's sort of obvious to anybody who knows the attributes of God.
But he chooses to do it mainly through human agency because he wants to see, I believe, who his faithful followers are.
And our ancestors in all these long years have been faithful to him.
And they haven't always won, but you can bet on this, that we'll be on the winning side in the end.
And all we are asked to do now, as our ancestors were 150 years ago, all we're asked to do is fight, to do our duty.
The consequences are God's.
We do our duty and let him deal with the outcome.
That's very well put.
Stirring.
You know, not only does God act through human agency, so does the devil.
And we are and we are facing demonic powers.
The Red Terror, of course, is basically, if you look at the history of the Soviet Union, Soviet communism, communism was a Jewish movement, and so was the Bolshevik Revolution.
So that tells you some other things that you need to know about the nature of our enemy.
Well, that is true.
And, you know, today, I mean, obviously, the Bolshevism, communism, whatever you want to call it, was a Jew product.
They proudly admitted that and still admit it today.
But if you look at all the anti-Southern propaganda that comes out, it comes out of the New York Times, Washington Post, Hollywood, television, etc., and all these are controlled by the Jews.
So we could say that the primary enemy of the South today is not Yankees.
I mean, it's, you know, we've got some white turncoats, white traitors, but they've simply allied themselves with the power that the ascendant power in America over the last 100 years, including the power, unfortunately, in the South, and that is Jewish power, Jewish supremacism, as some of my friends refer to it.
And I think that's exactly right.
And that's a good point, Keith.
We always need to have the courage to name our enemies, and a lot of southerners need to realize that God's chosen people, so-called, are not their friends.
Yeah, as I forget the English author who said it, how odd of God to choose the Jews.
I can understand this.
Well, I like that.
I'll have to remember that.
All right, we're going to take a quick break.
We're going to wrap up our conversation with Dr. Michael Hill, League of the South, right after this.
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You fought for your folks, but you didn't die in vain.
Even though you lost, they speak highly of your name.
Because you fought all the way, Johnny Rip, Johnny Rip.
You fought all the way, Johnny Rip.
And that goes to what our guest, our friend, Dr. Michael Hill, was saying in the last segment that we have to do our duty, win or lose.
The results are going to be in God's hands.
We must do our duty.
And when we're called to fight, we must go and fight.
And we fight all the way.
Let me add this too.
You can't defeat an enemy you're afraid to name.
And I'm so glad that Dr. Hill agrees with me as to the true identity of our enemies.
Well, let's hold on right there, Keith, because I want to play one more clip, and it will go into a follow-up question that I think in some ways is related to what y'all are talking about there.
This, too, from the movie Gods and Generals, Dr. Hill was talking about the Bible and the examples being in the Bible in the last segment, also as if he were looking ahead on my notes to see what was coming.
He didn't know this was coming, but this is a clip that I think illustrates some of that.
Let's play it.
Lieutenant Colonel Stewart reporting for duty, sir.
Colonel Stewart.
That's an impeccable hat, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Tell me, Colonel Stewart.
Use tobacco?
No, sir.
Not on any form.
Neither do I. Find I like it too much.
Sit down.
Understand from your record that you are West Point, class of 54.
Served since in the cavalry, Fort Clark, Texas.
Operations against Apache, Comanche.
Most impressive, you are Native Virginian.
Fought with Longstreet and Eules, sir.
Nasty business.
Merciless climate.
Glad to be home, sir.
The Apache were defending their homes as we'll be defending ours.
If we fight as well as the Apache, I pity the Yankee invader.
General Stewart, if I had my way, we would show no quarter to the enemy.
No more than the Redskins showed your troopers.
The black flag, sir.
If the North triumphs, it is not alone the destruction of our property.
It is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity, the ultimate loss of free and responsible government on this continent.
It is the triumph of commerce, the banks, factories.
We should meet the federal invader on the outer verge of just and right defense and raise at once the black flag.
No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides.
Our political leadership in Richmond's too timid to face the reality of this coming war.
You should look to the Bible.
It is full of such wars.
Only the black flag will bring the North quickly to its senses rapidly in the war.
Well, Colonel, one way or the other, the South will give them a warm reception.
You'll be in charge of the cavalry in the Harpers Ferry District.
Okay, let's stop it right there.
That, again, the movie Gods and Generals, Stephen Lang played Stonewall Jackson wonderfully in that movie.
And in that clip, of course, you heard talking about how the Bible informed, examples in the Bible informed his commitment to raise the black flag in protection and in defense of their homes and firesides.
What happened, Dr. Hill, to Christian men like that?
Because if you're looking at a true paragon of the faith, I don't think there have ever been two more sincere and more pious than Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson.
And, you know, you don't see that anymore.
How do we get that back?
And what does the future of the South look like?
Well, until we get that spirit back, and this is a godly spirit.
This is godly manhood.
These are godly warriors.
And until we get that spirit back of no quarter asked and none given and no surrender for our people, our civilization, our God, then we are going to be either slaves or we are going to be easily defeated because we, as Jackson pointed out there, don't have the stomach for the way a war has to be fought, a war of survival.
My father told me a long time ago, he said, son, there ain't no such thing as fighting fair.
He says, when it comes down to nut cutting time, he says you fight to win and you do whatever is necessary to destroy your enemy because you can bet he is out to destroy you.
If we don't get that sense of fighting back that my own father taught me and that Stonewall Jackson was talking about in the movie there, then we will lose.
And we're not guaranteed to win even if we get that fighting spirit back.
But I guarantee you this, we will go down like men if we don't.
Let me say this, if I could, you know, regarding the black flag and whatnot, the way I look at the Civil War is it's a perfect example of the truth of Leo DeRosher's famous comment, nice guys finished last.
In the South, as far as the Southern troops, they burned to the ground one Union town in the entire war.
I think it was Chambersburg, either Pennsylvania or Maryland, by Jubilee Earl's forces to protest Sherman's March to the Sea.
Meanwhile, Northern troops, particularly under Sherman and Grant, did this customarily.
In Mississippi, which wasn't even a major theater of the war, 43 towns were burned to the ground by Union troops.
So as far as honorable men, our Southern and Confederate forebears were that.
And what the Union did was visit total warfare on the South the first time.
The same thing is like the bombing of Dresden in World War II is what was visited on Georgia, for example, in Sherman's March to the Sea.
Yes, it was.
And when somebody is out to destroy your civilization like that and to destroy everything you hold dear, you've got no choice other than to pull off the gloves, as it were, and get down and dirty with them and destroy them by whatever means you find necessary.
And I think that that's how men, men of God, once fought these wars because they realized that you do not compromise with evil.
And yes, I'm calling the Northern war effort evil simply because they invaded the South and refused to let us have our God-given right of independence.
And let me just say this, too, regarding that.
That will kill us and destroy us in just the same way.
And it's time for Southerners to wake up.
You're either going to stand up and fight, or you're going to see everything that you hold dear taken away from you and ground into the dust by your enemies because they are not finished with us.
And liberalism, which is the modern name for the adversary we're fighting, is evil.
abortion, sexual revolution, drug culture.
Just think, none of these was the pet project of the John Burke Society.
They're all from liberalism, and liberalism is a shorthand term for what we're fighting, but we're fighting evil.
And that's, I think, very, very important for people in the South to understand.
Well, Dr. Hill, let me, if I may, with about two minutes remaining, I want to remind everybody again, Leagueofthesouth.com.
We're talking about our ancestry.
It's a glorious ancestry, a glorious patrimony.
We should always honor our ancestors and be proud of their sacrifice, really no matter who you are, but especially as Southern men, we must do that.
And I want to end on a slightly more positive and upbeat note.
Now, I loved what we were talking about earlier, how, you know, we've descended from these people over the centuries, and there's still so much of that genetic predisposition that is alive and well and in the very fiber of our beings and our beings.
And we're pleasing themselves through things like the League of the South.
Well, that's right.
Good point, Keith.
And that's League of the South.com, folks, to join up with Chief Dr. Michael Hill.
But Dr. Hill, let's look into the future of the South.
Now, obviously, we don't know how things are going to play out, but there's more than one way that it can play out.
I am not resigned to the fact that we will gather together at our gatherings and share our lamentations.
I am hopeful that tomorrow can be better than yesterday was.
How do we make it so?
Well, we have to, first of all, determine that we are going to put aside whatever distracts us and put our attention and our efforts and energy towards saving our civilization.
That has to be first.
It is a sublime, God-given blessing that we have as a civilization here.
The South, even for those people who don't know anything but their own immediate area, you know, they know what the South is.
The South is family.
The South is God.
The South is this beautiful land we've been given and all the wholesome good things that God has provided to us.
If those blessings are not worth fighting for and putting aside your pleasures and putting aside all of your distractions, your ball games, your bass boats, your beer, and jet ski.
Yeah, exactly.
And coming together as southerners to say, no, you're not taking away from us this sublime civilization that was given to us through the grace of God by the efforts of our noble ancestors and the blood, sweat, and tears that they gave up to leave us, this great patrimony that we call the South.
Well, Dr. Michael Hill, listen, it's always great to have you on, brother.
Especially great to have you on during Confederate History Month.
I'm so glad that you had the time and made the time.
I know you're about to have a supper.
You know, what people don't know, these behind the scenes things that we know, Michael Hill is having a get-together tonight with friends and family, and they're about to have supper, and he took time away from that to be with us and to be with you, ladies and gentlemen, on the radio tonight.
Leagueofthesouth.com, support their work.
If we didn't believe in it, and if we weren't a part of it, we wouldn't ask you to be.
League of the South.com.
Michael, Godspeed.
We'll talk to you again soon.
Brother, it was my pleasure once again.
God bless you.
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