April 9, 2022 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Yon bunny banks and by yon bunny brace where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond, where me and my true love were ever one together on the bunny, bunny bank, solo.
Oh, you take the high road and I'll take the load.
And I'll be in Scotland.
But me and my true love will never meet again.
On the bunny, bunny banks, so lac lomo.
Welcome back, everybody, to our celebration and commemoration of Confederate History Month 2022.
I'm your host, James Edwards, along with Keith Alexander.
It's Saturday evening, April the 9th, as we're kicking Confederate History Month into high gear this evening on Political Cesspool and for the next three weeks as well, featuring a lot of new music that we haven't heard before this year that has been sent in by listeners.
That was McGowan's Band, Songs of Southern Heritage.
That was Loch Lomond.
A lot of great songs on this.
I mean, in addition to Dixie and Bonnie Blue Flag, how about The Battle Cry of Freedom?
Unknown Graves, Shady Grove.
I've got another CD here that was sent in by, it's called Battlefield Ballads of the, well, they call it the Civil War.
We don't call it that.
But The Battle of Shiloh Hill, Waiting for the Federals, The Battle of Pea Ridge, Battle of Bull Run, Sherman's March, John Brown's March, The Sunny South on the Plains of Manassas, Battle of Prairie Grove, Hell Broke Loose in Georgia.
Hey, we're going to listen to a lot of these songs over the course of the next three weeks.
But before we do that, we're going to welcome back to the program for the second time this year.
The last time was in South Carolina, he was with us.
It's the one and only Kirk Lyons.
Kirk co-founded and serves as the chief trial counsel for the Southern Legal Resource Center.
That's the SLRC, a non-profit public law corporation which offers legal support and First Amendment to defend First Amendment violations, violations of civil rights, and discrimination against advocates of Southern heritage.
He's Kirk Lyons and he's back with us tonight.
Kirk, so great to have you.
How are you?
James, I'm glad to be here and good to hear your voice.
Yours too, my friend.
Let me ask you this.
We are a people who value blood and soil.
This is the question I've never asked anyone, and I'd be very interested to hear your answer to this.
All the years we've covered and celebrated our Confederate ancestry, I've not put the question to a guest in exactly this way.
So if you go back, Kirk, and you look at all of the ancestors in our lineage who made us who we are, you're going back, you're going back centuries, you're going back millennia, all the way back to Europe and Northwestern Europe and all of that.
The four years of the Confederate States of America plays, in the grand scheme of things, a very short amount of time in that, but it has an oversized, it has played an oversized role in our fondness and recollections.
Why is that very short period in the history of who we are and in the history of our people so revered in our hearts and minds, Kirk?
Well, because for a lot of us, when we were younger, it was still within a living memory.
And that's where our country lost.
Both sides lost that war, the North and the South, because it was the death knell of the old republic.
And then we, as very proud Southern people, had to live as we lived in an occupied country.
Our country was occupied and we lived under occupation.
And so we know what it's like to lose a war and we know what it's like to be under occupation.
And so it was seared into our memory.
We were not a united people before the war, but we sure were after the war.
And we have not forgotten.
Some of us still have not forgotten.
You know, that's a great answer.
I think that is a great answer.
I think when the Confederate, the memorialization of the Confederate heroes started, you know, and that's a funny thing.
They say that the reason these Confederate widows were pinching pennies trying to build monuments across the South was to intimidate blacks, not to mourn the dead fathers and sons that they had, but because they wanted to intimidate blacks, which is just a joke.
But keep it in the middle of the day.
It's a lie.
It's a big lie.
But see, the other side lives on big lies.
Everything about them is a lie.
Of course, one of the big lies, Kirk.
Because who are oppressing us now?
We now, if we didn't before, know that the South was right.
We were right in 1861 and we're right now.
And they're very questionable.
If anybody has doubt, remove it.
Kirk, this is Keith.
One of the big lies is that I'm here in the same studio as James.
So in other words, he can't be doing better.
Yeah, right.
He's that close to me.
Very good.
Well, that's debatable.
But anyway, let me just say this.
One of the big lies about the Civil War is that it was fought over slavery.
Look, slavery was not in danger in 1861.
We had the Dred Scott decision, which had confirmed it.
Lincoln denied that he had any intention whatsoever of freeing the slaves.
It was done about the South thought that his cow was being milked through the fence.
We were paying 80% of the excise taxes, tariffs that were financing the federal government.
But then all the internal improvements that were done with that money were located outside of the South.
That was it.
The Morrell Tariff and the Corwin Amendment basically answered that question.
And on the other hand, the left just insists on telling that lie because it has to be about black people.
Who are these unusual people that want to sacrifice their sons, their husbands, and their fathers in a crusade to free another group of people?
It just doesn't make any sense.
Well, Kirk, do you agree or disagree?
What are your thoughts?
The left's father is the father of lies.
And, no, our ancestors fought.
I give two reasons that everybody can understand.
One, we were invaded.
If you were invaded, even a slaveholding society has the right to defend the soil from invaders.
Absolute right.
The second reason was because, and everybody today can understand this.
You look at Nancy Pelosi, you look at Obama, and you look at Biden, you look at all these radicals that are running our world right now.
That's exactly how our ancestors in 1861 looked at the plutocrats that ran the North.
They looked at them the exact same way.
And it makes it very easy to understand why we wouldn't want to be in a government with people like that.
Because I don't want to be in a government with people like who's controlling us now.
Well, it's basically the same people.
You know, one thing that I think is important that we really need to focus on: the Massachusetts Bay colony from which all of New England grew was unlike any other English colony.
It was basically a dumping ground for religious crackpots.
And that's the way the Crown saw it.
And they proved the Crown right shortly after the Revolution.
We got the great Kirk Lyons with us right now.
Kirk is a true hero for our people.
He's fighting the battle in the court of law.
We fight in the court of public opinion.
Kirk Lyons at the Southern Legal Resource Center will get him to plug his contact information.
Kirk the lionhearted.
Amen.
Right after this, I'm going to play a clip and we're going to see if Kirk agrees when we come back.
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Why does the left lie constantly?
Because they get spiritual power from lying.
The lies come from Satan, the father of lies.
John 8:44.
Here's how the political lying process works: Satan provides the beast with a lie.
Then the more they use the lie, the more spiritual power they get.
Look, the media is a lie multiplier, and this multiplication gives more evil spiritual power to the beast.
And that can overwhelm and even deceive the body of Christ, especially when the body is being disobedient to the head.
The churches today are incorporated, so they're subordinate to human government.
They obey the beast and do nothing to restore our national relationship with God.
And the government shall be on his shoulders.
Isaiah 9:6.
That verse is not for the present-day church.
Rather, it is for the end-time church, the body of the line of Judah.
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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 phone.
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 Mules, sir.
Nasty business.
Merciless climate.
Glad to be home, sir.
The Apache were defending their homes as we will 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 is too timid to face the reality of this coming war.
They should look to the Bible.
It is full of such wars.
That once upon a time, ladies and gentlemen, Warner Brothers Studios reached out to yours truly and asked for our help here at TPC.
Can you imagine that?
As they re-released the movie Gods and Generals.
Now, in that scene that you just heard, that is Stephen Lang expertly portraying Stonewall Jackson in a meeting with Jeb Stewart in 1861.
That is a fantastic movie.
It's hard to believe that it came out in the theaters of post-2000, but it did, and I saw it in the theater.
And anyway, Kirk Lyons, you heard, of course, that's a recreation, you know, maybe a little artistic license being taken there.
But would you agree with what you heard in Jackson's assessment of what would happen?
Word-by-word quote, I think it's accurate.
And I agree.
You know, remember Jackson went right up to President Davis at the First Battle of Manassas and said, General, I mean, Mr. President, give me a brigade and I'll take Washington, D.C.
And Davis went there and said, Who is this boy?
and didn't let him do it.
But, you know, the entire Federal Army was in retreat.
It was running to Washington.
He could have probably taken the Capitol.
And Beauregard in charge of the Confederate troops there at First Manassas, Kirk?
Yeah, well, Johnston was in charge, and I think Beauregard was basically right under Johnston.
Well, I'd always heard that Beauregard fumbled the ball for the South twice.
One at First Manassas by not following up and capturing D.C., and the second time at Shiloh when he took over for Albert Sidney Johnson and Forrest tried to urge him to capture Pittsburgh Landing and fight through the night to prevent Don Carlos Buell's troops from disembarking.
Yep.
Yep.
It's just amazing, though, how right the Confederates were.
I mean, I think Mike Gaddy, our guest in the second hour, made mention of this, and that is that they were right, and they've been proven right, and never have they been proven more right than today.
What you just heard, and again, I know that's a Hollywood movie, but it was a good one.
You know, Stephen Lang, by the way, I think is a Jewish guy from New York, and he said that he totally invested himself in playing Stonewall Jackson, and he came away with immense respect for the man and agreed with him.
That's an incredible thing.
And he played it as if he was him.
That was just one of the most incredible acting performances.
It should have been an Academy Award.
That should have been Best Actor Academy Award.
Flat out.
Not just because I agreed with the message.
It was just that good of an actor.
But anyway, but what he said was exactly right.
What happened after our defeat, everything that he said in that clip came to fruition.
Well, and the United States marched on to become an empire.
And empires have never been very zealous of individual rights.
That's a great point.
That's a great point.
You know, and it's the march of empire.
And so our republic died, died on the battlefield.
The old republic died.
You know what?
You know what, though?
Damn it, Kirk.
We died on the battlefield, though, did we not?
I mean, at least our ancestors fought for something.
And we were the last people who fought and had a chance at defeating the federal Leviathan.
To descend from that stock is something that I have so much.
Oh, man.
As I sit here right now with Keith Alexander and talking to you, Kirk Lyons, the hair is standing on my arms to know.
Certainly not standing on your head.
Touche, my friend.
Touche.
But I'll tell you.
My great-great-grandmother, Angeline, was married to my Confederate ancestor, Gain and MS Lyons of the 26th, Alabama.
He died in 1910, and my great-grandfather gave her a railroad pass.
And for the rest of her life, she lived until 1935, she went around on a railroad pass visiting all of her children and grandchildren.
She'd stay with them, and then she'd move on.
And she had a little black suitcase with her clothes, and there weren't very many.
But when you open it up, the first thing you saw was a picture of Robert E. Lee.
And she would tell everybody with pride as she pointed to that picture, that was my husband's general.
Oh, God bless her.
God bless her.
What a sweet.
You know, what a coincidence, Kirk, because my ancestor.
Pardon me?
I was going to say, my ancestor, IES Alexander, my great-grandfather, died in 1910, too.
He fought the war through in General Nathan Bedford Forest, 15th Tennessee Calvary.
Well, let me tell you something.
The South is occupied.
The war is not over.
We never surrendered.
I certainly never surrendered.
That's the message we take from our ancestors.
We must resist.
We must resist.
We must resist the current usurper and his entire regime.
And we need to tell our elected officials that will listen to us, resist, resist, resist.
Now is the time, or it's going to be too late.
Kirk, we should have gone a full hour with you.
Should have gone a full hour with you.
Could have gone three hours with you, and we would have filled the time well.
You're always such a welcome guest and a great friend and a great champion of our people.
But with two minutes remaining and only two minutes, tell us about the Southern Legal Resource Center, your work, what it's, we've covered this before, but we can't cover it enough.
We always have to ask you.
Tell us about the work and how they can support it and how they can fight it.
Our work right now is to oppose government speech because government speech is tyranny.
And everybody out there should repeat that three times.
Government speech is tyranny.
You can support us by sending your most generous contribution to the Southern Legal Resource Center, P.O. Box 1235, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 28711.
That's box 1235, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 28711.
We need to help because we're fighting for what's left of Confederate free speech rights in this country.
And the Supreme Court just spit on everybody's rights to free speech in this country by upholding.
You mean the conservative, the majority conservative Supreme Court, Trump Supreme Court?
They couldn't have.
No, Kirk, don't tell me.
They refused to hear our case in Alpharetta, Georgia, where Alpharetta, Georgia said the SCB could not march because they were carrying Confederate flags.
And the Supreme Court would not hear the appeal.
So basically, the law, the rule stands from the 11th Circuit, and government speech trumps a community-sponsored parade, which ironically was founded by Confederate veterans in 1872 in Alpharetta.
No connection with the people.
Yo, go ahead.
Well, so if the 11th Circuit rule stands, that means the only way we'll ever have a Confederate flag in another community-sponsored parade is if the city allows it.
I'll tell you this.
I'll tell you, there are some places that would allow it.
Corinth, Mississippi would allow it.
Ocorn County, Mississippi.
Ripley, Mississippi.
Yeah, yeah, there's some places.
But I got to say this about Kirk.
For people, you know, Kirk's been on many times.
So most of you already know this.
But if you don't know this, I mean, Kirk is fighting the battle in the courtrooms.
Kirk is in court all the time fighting these issues.
A true champion.
I mean, most people won't do anything except growse over their beers.
Kirk is out there doing it.
Let me make this offer to you, Kirk.
If you ever need local counsel in Tennessee or Mississippi, give me a call.
Yes, by the way, my friend.
Thank you, James, and I appreciate him being on the show.
And happy Confederate Heroes Month.
Hey, amen.
Hey, tell us, you want to name drop a little bit?
Do you want to name drop your Confederate ancestors, their names and ranks?
Well, I can start with my great-great-grandfather Lyons, who was Gaynam, Scroggan, Lyons, Company H, John S. White's Company, the Sons of 76, 26th O'Neill's Regiment, Alabama Infantry.
Let's start there.
I don't mean to cut you off.
We could probably feel the rest of the hour with this.
Our last guy had so many he couldn't even remember him.
Hey, Kirk Lyons, thank you so much.
Southern Legal Resource Center, check him out.
Support him.
He gave you the address.
Go back and consult in the archives.
We'll be back with our final guest of the night.
Thank you, Kirk.
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There's a yellow rose in Texas that I am going to see.
Nobody else could miss her.
Not half as much as me.
She cried so when I left her, it like to broke my heart.
And if I ever find her, we never more apart.
She's the sweetest little rosebud that Texas ever knew.
Her eyes are bright as diamonds.
They sparkle like the new.
You may talk about your claim and find and sing a rosalie.
But the yellow rose of Texas is the only girl for me.
Keith Alexander asked for that to be played tonight.
That's the Yellow Rose of Texas.
Keith, that was a Columbia record.
And the album was called The Confederacy.
So that is the album, The Confederacy, the song The Yellow Rose of Texas, that was a number one hit, a number one hit in 1955.
That wasn't that long ago.
Oh, yeah, 1955 was a great year.
We also had the ballad of Davey Crockett from that year.
This was recorded by the Mitch Miller Orchestra.
Mitch Miller had Sing Along with Mitch, a TV program that was very popular.
And that, I think, was his best-selling record.
And it's an old Texas and Confederate marching song.
And we love Confederates from Texas, but we also love them from Virginia and North Carolina and then from all of the other Confederate states.
All these other states had their own versions of something like that.
We've got now, though, joining us to round out the trio of fantastic guests tonight.
Mike Gaddy, Kirk Lyons, and now Rebecca dissident Mama Dillingham.
We love dissident mama.
Do we not keep how much do we love her?
We love her so much that I'm always lobbying you to put her website up on our daily read.
Well, and it would be done if that had been updated in the last 15 years.
If you could ever get around to it, it doesn't mean that I'm not there every week.
And she just wrapped up a fantastic interview with our good friend, Lionel Loctiff of Red Ice.
But anyway, Mrs. Dillingham is a retired mainstream journalist, turned domesticated southern bell and rabble-rousing rhetorician, an advocate of Orthodox Christianity and the Southern tradition and homeschooling and freedom.
She's an adept at triggering leftists and she bangs as loudly as she can.
Always great to have Rebecca with us.
How are you doing tonight, Disney, Mama?
I'm doing pretty well.
How are you, James?
Well, I'm doing better now, I can tell you that.
So, let me ask you the question that we asked our previous guest.
You know, you look back on all of the generations that it took to get us to where we are, our lineage, hundreds, thousands of years.
Why is that four-year period of the Confederate part of our ancestry so important to us?
Well, I see it as the last stand, pretty much.
You know, I was trying to think before, you know, you called, what am I going to tell him about how we celebrate Confederate History Month?
And really, that's a hard question for me because we talk about Confederate history all the time, but not just Confederate history, all Southern history all the time in our family.
So, but those four years, you know, we see it as not being nostalgic, not something that is, you know, just something that people do because it's kind of cool to talk about it sometimes in certain circles.
But we see it in our family as something that's never been more relevant.
That if the Confederacy had won, perhaps, and probably, very probably, we would not be living in the clown world that we are.
That those four years were the last stand for really Western civilization, tradition, family values, and all those types of things.
So, that opened the floodgates for where we're at now.
And that's one of the things that I try to do with my blog and podcast: to wake people up to the fact that if you don't have your history right from 1861 to 65, you really don't understand why we're at.
You know, people are always pulling their hair out and wondering, how did we get here?
And we know history is important, but you cannot understand American history, the 20th century, and absolutely not the 21st century, without understanding what happened in those four years because it set the stage for everything.
So, that's why those four years are important to us.
And of course, we had ancestors on both sides, my side and my husband's side, who fought valiantly against centralization and the Yankee Empire.
Some of them lost their lives, some of them did not.
But yeah, to me, it's never been more important.
And I use the word nostalgia because that's what leftists say now.
And elitists who call themselves conservatives, oh, you're just obsessed with nostalgia.
That's like their new buzzword.
It's like there's nothing nostalgic about it.
You know, when you're immersed in this clown world, and it's not nostalgia, it's understanding how we got to where we're at.
Rebecca, this is Keith Alexander.
One thing that I like to do is hypothesize about what our subsequent history would have been had the South been successful and withdrawn from the United States.
I think there's a very good possibility we would not have been involved in either World War I or two because we would have- Thank God we would have been half the size, half as wealthy, and I think probably about 10 times less likely to try to project ourselves onto the world stage as an empire.
What do you think?
Absolutely.
My kids currently are doing a Ron Paul history class, and God bless the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum.
However, the eighth-grade history that they're currently doing, we almost stopped doing it because it was very Lincolnian.
You know, I don't understand how it could be so Lincolnian teaching about the war.
And then they bemoan this certain teacher bemoans the fact that, oh, the U.S. started overstepping its boundaries during the Spanish-American War.
And hey, there was a false flag with the USS Name.
Well, that, you know, all happens in the late 1800s and totally, yes, sets the stage for both of us.
I don't think we've gotten into a war, Rebecca, since the Civil War that was not brought about by misleading the American people in propaganda.
I have to interrupt you both right here.
As 18 years on here, I am so proud to host this show.
You would think after nearly two decades, you would have had your fill.
You would have seen it all.
Nothing would make you sort of brim with excitement.
But I don't know what it is, if it's my Confederate ancestor coming out of me tonight or what.
But to be able to do this show and to talk to Mike Gaddy and Kirk Lyons and Rebecca Dillingham about these issues, I am proud that we are able to do this on the AM and FM Radio Airwave Skeets because I can tell you this, nobody else is doing it that way.
And this is a great conversation with a great lady.
I'm at our website right now, by the way, dissidentmama.net.
Dissidentmama.net.
I have said in the past, we don't worship sacred cows.
We eat them.
She writes, and we smash sacred cows with a bang, not a whimper, at dissidentmama.net.
She is an excellent writer, a former, as she mentioned, a former mainstream media.
Mike Gaddy was just starting a new radio program called Speak Free Read Read Read Read.
I said, you know, we've heard of Live Free or Die.
His motto ought to be speak free or gay.
But over there at dissidentmama.net, she's got a great podcast with great guests, and she also writes equally as well, which is a double whammy.
But anyway, that was one of the things, Rebecca, that we were going to ask you tonight.
If the South had won, if the South had won, would we be entertaining transgenderism and all of the other manifestations of progressivism and wokeness?
I don't think so.
What about you?
Oh, I'd say absolutely not.
Of course, we never know for sure.
And that's one of the things that even some really good content creators, I like, will just say, well, it just would have been a slower march to the dystopian hellscape that we're at now.
But I don't think so.
I don't think so at all because the South was doing so much right.
Yes.
And I think anything, like if you study the Confederate Constitution, I mean, that's just a great example of they could see the openings, the Pandora's box that were just even in the Constitution.
You know, I absolutely think, of course, with decentralization and if the South had not been invaded, I don't think the Yankee Empire without Southern money would have become the Yankee Empire.
So we wouldn't have the Yankee Empire marching around the globe doing all the insane things they're doing.
That's one.
And two, I really think that the Southern spirit and the Southern tradition would have had a, not that it was, not that it was, I don't know, what's the word?
Not that it was not going anywhere.
I can't think of the right word.
But I think there would have been a rebirth after that.
You know, there would have been like, okay, hey, here we are.
Let's really, you know, move forward and be as healthy and as smart and as spiritual as possible.
You know, and I think that type of tradition, that little old Orthodox, you know, spirit of the South would have come to the fore.
And of course, the customs would have remained.
Traditions would have been imbued.
On and on we go.
No Yankee empire.
I say to anyone, yeah, I mean, I think things would be a lot better, not just for the people in the Americas, but probably for the world.
Yeah, Rebecca, I think that it was a mistake for us to align ourselves with the North at all, and we can talk about that after these words from our sponsor.
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My friend, may I have to submit that you're mistaken about Virginia.
As you know, the legislature is convening in Richmond this very day to discuss the very issue of secession.
Perhaps you know their mind better than they themselves.
And I regret to say the president's hasty calling up of 75,000 volunteers to subdue the rebellion in the cotton states has done nothing to ameliorate the crisis.
It has only deepened it.
I trust you're not being too hasty yourself, Colonel.
This is a great opportunity for you to serve your country.
My country, Mr. Blair.
I never thought I lived to see the day that the President of the United States would raise an army to invade his own country.
No, Mr. Blair, I cannot lead it.
I will not lead it.
I'm sorry to hear you say that, sir.
I fear you're making a most dreadful mistake.
Would you please convey my deepest sense of honor and gratitude to the President, but I must decline his offer.
Please tell him, please be clear, I have never taken my duties lightly, but I have no greater duty than to my home, to Virginia.
That is Robert Duvall portraying Robert E. Lee as he refuses the command of the Union Army.
And Jerry Taylor made mention of this last week, that Robert E. Lee is a guy who comes by once every couple of centuries.
You just don't make men like that.
Keith, very quickly before we go back to dissident mama, Rebecca Dillingham, I want to ask her about, you know, they hate southerners.
They hate Christians.
They hate white people, but they truly hate white Christian Southerners.
We're going to talk to her about her fellowship.
She is a member of Orthodox Christianity.
I really want to get to that, and we will.
But very quickly, Keith, a final thought on what we were talking about in the previous segment.
Yeah, I think it was a big mistake for the South to join the North in the new nation because there was just a big difference between the outlook of New England, for example, people from East Anglia, and the South where people came from the fringes.
I have an English mother, and I can tell you that, you know, in America, if you're from the North, you're a sophisticate, and if you're from the South, you're a hick.
In England, it's a little more subtle than that.
You are a sophisticate based on how close you are to London, and the further away from London you are, the more of a hick you are.
Well, the South was from Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, Northern England, Ireland.
Those places were the outsiders.
The people from New England, from East Anglia, thought they were of a higher sort.
Now, the English crown, on the other hand, had a special place in their heart for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
They didn't intend for them to be there, but when they wound up because of poor navigation in New England, what they did was they said this is a perfect dumping ground.
It's not going to be a good colony.
It's not going to make any money in that climate and with that thin soil, but it's a great dumping ground for religious crackpots.
And basically, right after the revolution, the people in New England proved the truth of the English crown's assessment because they started veering into crazy variants like Mormonism, you know, Unitarianism, Universalism, Transcendentalism, Rosicrucianism, and things like that.
And, you know, they were fanatics.
They were typical liberals back then who think that they have a right to remake other people in their image.
And that's what they, I think that's the real psychological reason behind the Civil War.
They could not give up the exquisite pleasure of bending us to their will.
Rebecca.
Yes.
Yeah, sorry.
I thought you were going to say something, James.
Sorry about that.
Yeah, I agree.
My kids and I are reading Albion Seed now.
You know, that great book.
Somebody just texted me.
Somebody, I'm so sorry.
Somebody just texted me about that.
That is incredible.
That is uncanny.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Well, you know, it's this really long book.
It's been around for a while in the four British folkways, and it starts off talking about exactly what Keith was just referencing, how the folks that came from East Anglia were very particular sort, a very obviously puritanical sort.
And when they could keep it within, yeah, when they, exactly, when they could keep it within Massachusetts Bay County, fine, whatever, do your own thing up there.
But of course, they had to spread it because they believed in this, you know, kind of Hebraic Christianity.
And, you know, it's constantly reforming because they think that people can create heaven on earth, where I would say the Orthodox, lowercase, of course, Christianity of the South was, you know, sweep your own back porch and, you know, do your own thing and try to get your own neck of the woods right, you know, yourself first, your family, and from there it goes, which is the sensible thing to do because how can you, you know,
fix the world if you got a huge plank sticking out of your own eye, which was a Yankee characteristic.
So, and it is still one because now they've lost Christ and so they're worse than ever, you know, at least back then, you know, before the war, I would say, you know, 1600s, 1700s, you know, they did their own weird thing, but they were very concerned about God.
But once you get him out of the equation, you know, we got where we're at right now because of that.
They still want to reform and reconstruct.
And of course, we need to be fixed.
So they come marching down here, you know, smashing the grapes of wrath and all that kind of stuff under their boot heel.
And here we are, you know, an occupied nation state, you know.
So, yeah, okay.
Let me, again, plug dissidentmama.net.
DissidentMama.net.
I was going to ask Rebecca, time wouldn't allow it, but I was going to ask Rebecca how you keep the memory of our Confederate ancestors and Southern heroes alive in your home.
She's a homeschooling mom.
She's a boy mom, got three boys.
She writes about it quite extensively at dissidentmama.net.
She takes them to the battlefield.
She takes them to the monument.
She was at the, I don't know what it was, the 15th reinterment of General Forrest just a few months ago.
And we've talked about that.
We've talked about that with Gene Andrews.
She went to the boyhood home of Forrest and Gene Andrews gave her a personal tour.
That's the kind of VIP stuff we can make happen.
But anyway, no.
Gene will be on next week.
But anyway, read about that, how she keeps the memory of these people alive, our heroes alive in her heart and in the home and in the home of their family.
But Rebecca, I got to talk to you about your fellowship.
You're an Orthodox Christian, and you have been part of an effort to create an Orthodox fellowship that seeks to evangelize Southerners.
And it has become, it has been absolutely beset with attack.
Tell us about the fellowship, what you've endured, and why you're doing it.
Well, it's called the Ludwell Orthodox Fellowship.
It is myself and three other founders, Dr. Don Livingston of the Abbeville Institute, Dr. Clark Carlton, who is well known in the Orthodox world.
He's a philosopher like Dr. Livingston, and a priest named Father John Whiteford, who lives in Texas.
But our deal is we feel as if the South is ripe for Orthodoxy, not only because we're Orthodox, and of course we want people to be Orthodox, but we feel as if the Christ-haunted land of the South that Flander O'Connor spoke about is extremely Christ-haunted these days.
She wrote that in the 1950s.
So not only have people themselves pushed away Christ, but the church, you know, Protestant churches have, this is a generalization, but I think it's safe to say, have pushed people away with their wokeness and their COVID policies and all this kind of stuff to where the red carpet is sometimes laid out for very special interest groups, but the white southern man is not ever given the white carpet.
Now, our fellowship wants Orthodoxy for everyone in the South, whether they're native or not, black, white, in between, whatever.
We want everyone to be loved, to feel the love of Christ.
However, it will probably be a majority white fellowship.
I mean, that's orthodoxy mostly is majority white.
I mean, you could say.
White people like their own churches.
Right, right.
Yeah.
So, you know, it is what it is.
You know, we're not going to go out of our way to evangelize to black people.
We're going to evangelize two southerners, of whom many of them are black.
But the point is, because we're probably going to be majority white and because we are specifically going for southern people who have been abandoned, who need Christ just as much as anybody else, and who have the love of absolutely no one.
We have been targeted.
I mean, our website launched in early November.
We were attacked by a bunch of people at Fordham University, which is this Jesuit.
They have this whole Orthodox study center that's run by left-wing crazy people, whatever.
They're religious experts, but really they attacked us.
And in fact, a lot of Orthodox Christians attacked us too because we had the gumption to say that Dixie's land is right for Orthodoxy.
And we want the people of Dixie to find Orthodoxy.
And we want to.
Rebecca, what's the website?
I mean, you know, no, no.
Southern Christians have been abandoned certainly by the Southern Baptist Convention, by Episcopalians.
What I said to him early was that they've exchanged the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the Gospels of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
All right.
Rebecca, what's the website for the fellowship?
We know dissidentmama.net.
If you are a white southerner who has been abandoned by their church, and there's no shortage of you out there, I can guarantee you that.
If you're that and you want to be a part of an Orthodox fellowship, what's the website, Rebecca?
SouthernOrthodox.org.
And you can read about why we have Ludwell as a namesake.
He was a Virginian.
You can read all about that there.
We want to just nurture the roots of Orthodoxy in Dixie's land.
We used the word Dixie, which triggered a bunch of people.
So whatever.
If that doesn't trigger you, come visit our site.
It triggers us in a good way.
It triggers us in so much as we're going there right now.
That's wonderful, Rebecca.
I appreciate all you're doing.
And I appreciate you being with us tonight as we continue to celebrate Confederate History Month.
So for Rebecca Dillingham, for Kirk Lyons, for Michael Gaddy, for Keith Alexander, I'm James Edwards for our entire team here at Liberty News Radio Network.
What a great night it has been.
DissidentMama.net.
That's where you need to be, ladies and gentlemen.
We'll see you next week as Confederate History Month rolls on in our hearts and in our minds and on the air.