‘Flying Dixie’s Flag on the Fourth of July’

 

It is unsurprising to see the United States flag flying on the 4^th of July.  It is the day of the colonies’/States’ separation from Great Britain, and the beginning of their existence as countries on an equal footing with the others of the world.

And yet something is missing.  The Southern cultural element that should be present in Louisiana and the rest of Dixie has been cut out.  And one of the key components of that is the Southern flag, also known as the Confederate battle flag.

That might sound strange to some folks, but when one actually reads what Southerners of that day said and wrote, rather than the distortions and misrepresentations of it, they believed that their secession from the United States was an act of the same kind as their forefathers’ in 1776.  That is, the government in DC in 1861 had become an endangerment to them and the culture they wanted to preserve:  deeply rooted in agriculture, Christianity, the family, and good manners – values which are held in honor by both blacks and whites at the South.

The North at that time did, and still today does, live by the opposite values:  enamored with technology and industry, with various heresies, with the redefinition of the family, and personal behavior that is rude and disagreeable.

The typical Southerner continues to show his difference from those Northern values by his love for the outdoors, for pretty flower and vegetable gardens, for hunting camps and fishing ponds, by his Yes Ma’am and No Ma’am, by his intense desire for Christ, by his family reunions, by his rejection of the LGBT cult, etc.

The Southern flag is a good symbol of those values because it is a distinctly Christian flag.  The cross depicted on it is the Cross of St. Andrew the Apostle, who was crucified on an X-shaped cross in Patras, Greece.  This cross was chosen for the Southern flag thanks to the influence of the large numbers of Scottish people who made up Dixie’s population.  The Scottish highly venerated St. Andrew; their national flag in Scotland also features St. Andrew’s Cross.

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The rest may be read here:

https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/flying-dixies-flag-on-the-4th-of-july/

Or here:

https://www.hannapub.com/ouachitacitizen/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/letter-to-the-editor-confederate-flag-not-to-be-hidden-as-wicked/article_a47c8893-d812-4a6f-b2bd-eecaeb127087.html

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!